An Appraisal of Violence against Women in the 21st Century Nigeria: Gender Perspective

Abstract

The persistent rise in violence against women in Nigeria is alarming despising the 1993 United Nations General Assembly Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women. This deliberate disregard to international law in Nigeria despite being a signatory to several human rights instruments has become a growing concern to human rights groups, hence international attention. The paper interrogates violence against women in the 21st Nigeria with focus on its Gender affinity. The paper adopts a content analysis which automatically limit the source of data to secondary source. It identified lack of political will, inadequate resources, lack of systematic effort in addressing the menace, slow in ongoing criminal justice reformation and lack of evaluation among others as major challenges in tackling the vice. The paper concluded by recommending amongst political will, availability of adequate fund, systematic effort to address the menace, speedy of ongoing criminal justice reformation process and creation of more research centre for evaluation purpose. Collective efforts in eradicating violence against women in Nigeria is also apt.