Human Rights on Gender Sex and The Law in Nigeria

The essence of a study on gender and human rights law helps us to expose the ‘wrongs’ that women experience in order to assist policy makers in critical analytic revision of the law, and seeking practical solutions for analytical debates for gender reform. It is pertinent to state that women’s’ rights in Nigeria simply refers to whether women are treated as being equal to men. Despite the remarkable progress made for gender equality in Nigeria, women still face sexual violence, discrimination, and formal barriers to access equal participation in Nigeria. Accordingly, gender equality has not yet been achieved. The central theme of this book is to advocate that gender equality should be a human right. In many ways, this study curiously scrutinises areas for gender empowerment through reforms in the law, education, health, social work and government policies.