Nigeria’s senate has passed its most comprehensive anti-violence against women bill, to date, prohibiting “female circumcision, forceful ejection from home and harmful widowhood practices,” reports Nigeria’s Channels Television. The bill further helps eliminate “violence in private and public life, provides maximum protection, effective remedies for victims of violence, and punishment of offenders.” Other features of …
Petition To Endorse Anti Violence Against Women Act (AVAWA) Violence against women (VAW) is recognized as a problem that continues to disenfranchise women everywhere at the grassroots level in every region, country, culture, and religion. Gender-based violence violates human rights, hampers productivity, reduces human capital, and undermines economic growth. The global campaign for ending violence against …
The Ladybrille community sends a hearty congratulations to our Ladybrille Woman Alum Uche Pedro and her husband Bode Pedro for the birth of their twins. The couple welcomed the twins yesterday, Wednesday, April 9th, 2015. “My husband Bode and I welcomed twins today, April 9,” said Pedro, the CEO & Founder of BellaNaija.com in a message shared …
Yesterday a friend called to check on me and my now 4-month old baby boy who has become the center of my world. As our conversation progressed she suddenly asked “so how is motherhood?” I paused, I chuckled then paused again. She couldn’t understand what was so funny and I didn’t expect her to. I …
“Today there are almost a billion young women globally between the ages of 10 and 25. Many of them will have very little control over their lives. Millions will become child brides or teen mothers. One in three girls in developing countries is married before the age of 18. More still will be victims of …
When I watched Monica Lewinsky’s recent TedTalk, I couldn’t help but note that she raised some valid points in her chosen topic, “public shaming.” Lewinsky’s name became a global sensation in the late 90s when the public discovered that she was having an affair with the President of the United States of America, at the …
