Part 3 of the Zero Draft
"Under section 3.2: Elimination of violence and discrimination against women for improved food security and nutrition, No 40 cited indigenous peoples and socially and economically deprived women as being at heightened risk of violence".
I want to state it more clearly that the type of gender violence that is commonly experienced in Nigeria is not sexual abuse but psychological and economical violence as a result of patriarchy. More especially in polygamous households, where the man as head of household mandates the women and girls to work on the family farm without allowing them full access to ownership or use of profit earned to take care of their personal needs. In a situation where the woman is the head of the household, she is not allowed to have full ownership of farmlands or proceeds from ornamental trees or cash crops to raise her kids and take care of her needs.
In section 3.3: Access to education, capacity building, training, knowledge and information services, one of the significant barriers to women and girls' education is early marriage and child marriage mostly caused by an age long tradition that cannot be influenced by civilisation nor religion.
Ms. Asikaralu Okafor