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Legal Literacy Leaflets
Reproductive Health and Rights Leaflet
Political Rights and
Responsibilities of Women as
Citizens
Child Custody and Guardianship
Divorce- The Dissolution of a
Marriage in Muslim Personal Laws in
Nigeria
Against Violence against women
Reproductive Health and Rights
This legal literacy leaflet sets out to discuss issues of reproductive health rights of women in Nigeria.
It will in particular examine the various issues covered under reproductive healthand rights of women, like vesico vaginal
fistula (VVF), early and forced marriages, unsafe abortion/unwanted pregnancies, female genital mutilation,
rape, incest, bride-price related violence, mortality rates, nutritional taboos,as they affect women's health and rights....Read More
Political Rights and
Responsibilities of Women as
Citizens
This booklet which examines basic
aspects of political rights and
responsibilities of women as
citizens include: the responsibility
to vote and be voted for in
election; to hold elected officials
accountable; to mobilize for
political participation; to monitor
and evaluate the performance of
their representatives; to join
political parties and to vie for
leadership within the party
structure. It also explains key
terms in the political arena, and
examines the legal provisions, that
support the essence of political
participation of women in the
society. Lack of political
awareness, amongst other factors,
have militated against women’s
participation in politics. In view
of this, the leaflet highlights the
basic rights accrued to women
citizens as well as examines the
importance of women’s political
participation.
In attempting to bridge the gap
between women and men’s access to
decision-making processes as and to
meaningful political participation,
the leaflet also identified a number
of existing challenges to overcome
in the disproportionate
representation of women in
decision-making.
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Child Custody and Guardianship
This leaflet sets out the conditions
of custody or guardianship available
under Muslim Personal laws in
Nigeria, where the Maliki school of
law is followed. Muslim Personal
laws in Nigeria are often referred
to as Sharia.
Divorce- The Dissolution of a
Marriage in Muslim Personal Laws in
Nigeria
This leaflet sets out the forms of
divorce available under Muslim
Personal Laws in Nigeria, where the
Maliki School of law is followed....More
Against Violence against Women
This document describes different
types of violence, and identifies
that though both men and women are
victims of violence, women suffer
both from the same sorts of violence
as men, as well as other forms of
violence that happen only or mostly
to women....More
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