The Women Advocate Research and Documentation Centre on Sunday held a capacity building for female traditional rulers and female market women in tackling and reducing sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls in Ondo State.
According to her, the project is to enhance engagement, capacity and accountability of community leaders and gatekeepers, including women agencies, religious and traditional rulers. She explained that domestic violence was common to all communities in Nigeria, and that it was mostly associated with a woman’s action or failure to act.
“We are to build new ways and initiatives that deal with and confront cultural patterns of violence, dominance and power, while also empowering women and girls,” she said.
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