Initiative for Women and Girls Right Advancement (IWOGRA)
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Who We Are
Initiative for Women and Girls Right Advancement (IWOGRA) is a non-governmental, non-profit women and girls’ right organization that works towards the promotion and protection of human rights, equity and social justice in Nigeria
Vision
At IWOGRA we are dedicated peaceful society that upholds the promotion and protection of the human rights of women and girls.
We Support Girl Child Right To Education At IWOGRA
Yes that’s right, Education is a basic child need, we actively campaign against discrimination against children based on sex. Train a girl child today and you train a nation.
“Investing in women means investing in people who invest in everyone else.”
Melinda Gates Co-Founder Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
REPORT OF THE TRAINING OF GRASSROOTS WOMEN AND GIRLS ON THE VIOLENCE AGAINST PERSONS (PROHIBITION) ACT, 2015.
Initiative for Women and Girls Right Advancement (IWOGRA) conducted a training workshop at Galadimawa Community, Abuja, on Saturday, 17 October, 2020. The training had 36 Participants in attendance comprising of women and girls between 16-35 years of age, and the...
REPORT OF THE ADVOCACY VISIT TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, BAWA JETTA, JIKWOYI COMMUNITY, ABUJA
The Initiative for Women and Girls Right Advancement (IWOGRA) paid advocacy visit to His Royal Highness, Bawa Jetta, Etsu Jikwoyi Palace, Jikwoyi Community, Abuja, on Saturday, 8 August, 2020. IWOGRA team was comprised of Nkechi Obiagbaoso-Udegbunam, Founder of IWOGRA, Sheila Audu, Deputy Director of IWOGRA, Uwaila Omosigho, Program Manager and Eucharia Bisong, IWOGRA Volunteer.
COMMUNIQUE FROM THE WEBINAR ON YOUTH MOBILIZATION AGAINST SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
Initiative for Women and Girls Right Advancement (IWOGRA) in Collaboration with SIIDAfrica organized a webinar meeting with the theme: Mobilizing Youths against Sexual and Gender Based Violence. The focus of the meeting was on the major challenges of sexual and gender...
Report of the webinar on ‘The Role of Men in Ending and Preventing Rape Culture’
The Initiative for Women and Girls Right Advancement (IWOGRA)believes it’s time wemake men and boys allies in the fight against rape culture and bringing the concerns of women and girls to the front burner of interventions being made to end rape. There is need for the...
REPORT OF THE WEBINAR HELD ON 23RD JUNE 2020 BEING THE INTERNATIONAL WIDOWS’ DAY
REPORT OF THE WEBINAR HELD ON 23RD JUNE 2020 BEING THE INTERNATIONAL WIDOWS’ DAY Introduction The meeting was organized by the INITIATIVE FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS RIGHT ADVANCEMENT (IWOGRA) a non-governmental, non-profit women and girls’ right organization that works...
REPORT OF THE ONE-DAY TRAINING OF GRASSROOTS WOMEN AND GIRLS ON THE VIOLENCE AGAINST PERSONS (PROHIBITION) ACT, 2015.
Initiative for Women and Girls Right Advancement (IWOGRA) held a training workshop at Etsu Jikwoyi Palace, Jikwoyi Community, Abuja on Saturday, 12 September, 2020. The training had 37 Participants in attendance comprising of women and girls, and the IWOGRA team which...
Group enlightens grassroots women on VAPP Act
To ensure grassroots women and girls are equipped with basic knowledge and information provided in the Violation Against Persons (Prohibition) (VAPP) Act, a non-governmental organisation, Initiative for Women and Girls Rights Advancement (IWOGRA), recently, held a workshop for Jikwoyi community residents in Abuja.
The group, however, provided simplified version of the Act to enable these women and girls understand the content.
Widowhood: Human Rights Group Calls For Reforms, Abolition Of ‘Degrading Practices’ In Southeast Nigeria
The South East geopolitical zone allegedly has the highest form of harmful widowhood practices in Nigeria, including shaving of the hair on a woman’s private parts, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Initiative for Women and Girls Right Advancement (IWOGRA), has claimed.
The organisation, which called for reforms or complete abolition of such practices that degrades women, said eight out of ten Nigerian men do not have a Will at the age of 45, while seven out of ten men die without a Will.
“Widows constitute a significant proportion of women in Nigeria. The 2015 World Widows Report estimated that there are about 258 million widows in the world, while about 2.2 million of them are Nigerians. Eight out of ten Nigerian men do not have a Will at the age of 45, while seven out of ten men will not still write a Will until they pass on”, IWOGRA emphasised.
Group seek to end discrimination, maltreatment meted on widows
The Initiative For Women and Girls Right Advancement (IWOGRA), a not for profit organisation has stressed the need to end all forms of discrimination, violence and maltreatment faced by widows.
In a webinar conference held recently to commemorate the 2020 International Widows’ Day with the theme: ‘Achieving Full Rights and Recognition For Widows in Nigeria’, the group brought to the front burner concerns and interventions made for women while celebrating widows.
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