Source: Daily Trust
Women's Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) has called on the National Assembly to pass the Gender and Equal Opportunities (GEO) Bill and the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Bill.

Briefing Newsmen yesterday in Abuja, WRAPA Secretary General and RHV Programme Director , Mrs Saudatu Mahdi said the passage of the GEO Bill will honour Nigeria's time long commitment of domesticating the AU protocol, CEDAW and implement its own National Gender Policy.

Raising Her Voice project (RHV) has the key objective of raising women's voices to engage effectively in governance with the main entry point being the domestication of the African Union Women's protocol which is the Protocol to the African charter on Human and People's Rights on the rights of Women in Africa.

While the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), an international human rights treaty that focuses on women's rights and women's issues worldwide.

She said milestones of the project within the fourth year include introduction of the RHV Model law, GEO Bill in the National Assembly in partnership with the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development and four states Houses of Assembly Lagos, Kogi, Edo and Imo states.

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