WHRP Project

The WHRP is a programme aimed at providing legal protection for women’s rights, access to justice, fight against sexual and gender-based violence as well as to promote human dignity and respect for the rights of women.
The programme’s goals are to:

  • Improve the legal framework for protection of victims of domestic violence
  • Enhance education and awareness on women’s rights.
  • Improve women’s participation in public life and policy making
  • Integrate respect of women’s rights in public polices, legislation and administration of justice, and
  • Provide legal support to female victims of human rights abuses.

Women Human Rights Programme comprises:

Women Human Rights Programme comprises:

  1. SGBV AND SRH Advocacy Project: The project is aimed at increasing awareness and support for the Violence Against Person’s Prohibition Act 2015 in Nigeria. It also creates public awareness on the dangers of Sexual and gender-based violence and traditional harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and its solution. The project comprises:
    • Equipping women and girls with knowledge and understanding of sexual and reproductive health and rights
    • Engagement of key stakeholders on protecting the rights of women and girls against SGBV
    • to equip the key stakeholders with advocacy skills for promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights
    • Providing Legal Aid to female victims of human rights violations, including victims of SGBV and remand imprisonment
    • Promotion of Reproductive Health of Women: It focuses on providing resources for grass roots community-based organizations and health workers on rights of women to reproductive health.
    • The project also seeks to address the human rights issues on HIV/AIDS and to offer legal support to victims.
  2. Women in Politics Project: This project aims to combat marginalization, discrimination and violence against women in the politics of Nigeria, and in order to assist women politicians acquire knowledge to organize their political campaigns and promote their political aspiration to people and the media. It is a grass roots platform for women across political parties to meet and share experiences, build and support one another. LIRAD aims at encouraging experienced and successful female politicians to mentor the younger and less experienced ones. This project is also to encourage women participation in politics at the grassroot level
  3. Women Empowerment Project (WEP): The project is aimed at empowering indigent women who either have the capacity to start a business but have no capital or those who are running petty day to day businesses and are aspiring to expand the business. The Pilot States for the Project are Benue, Oyo, Ebonyi, Jigawa and Delta.