Jean-Pierre Baro: French theatre director quits after rape claim
The director of a French theatre, Jean-Pierre Baro, has resigned the day after his staff went on strike urging him to quit over the fallout from a rape allegation. Jean-Pierre Baro, the first major theatre figure to be hit by the #MeToo movement in France, denied assaulting a colleague in 2011 and police dropped the […]
FG, NGOs sensitise FCT residents, traders on rape
Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and some NGOs, on Saturday, embarked on a walk in the FCT to sensitise traders in markets and other residents on the need to end rape and other forms of violence against women and children. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the walk was carried out simultaneously in different […]
Rape: FG, NGOs sensitise FCT residents, traders
Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and some NGOs, on Saturday, embarked on a walk in the FCT to sensitise traders in markets and other residents on the need to end rape and other forms of violence against women and children.
Rape: Special ritual must be performed for my daughter; I to be well — plaintiff
Court dissolves 9-year-old marriage As husband rape, abuse stepdaughters Chief Ademola Odunade, the President of a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, on Thursday dissolved a nine-year-old marriage between one Mary Dickson and John Dickson for persistently raping the two daughters she had before marrying him. Odunade pronounced the union dissolved, adding that the court might […]
16 Days of Activism: FIDA calls on stakeholders to unite against rape culture in Nigeria
As Nigeria joins the international community to commemorate this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence which begins each year on November 25th which is the International Day of the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the International Federation of Women Lawyers, Nigeria, has called on stakeholders to unite against the culture of rape in Nigeria.
Nurse rapes patient who he was meant to look after
A nurse has been kicked out of the profession after he was jailed for 15 years for raping a patient. Mohamed Kamara, 48, pulled the curtains around the woman’s bed at Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, on May 15, 2017, Metro reports. He then tried to force-feed her sleeping pills before sexually abusing her. Kamara had […]
