DOWNLOAD CEHRD’S MANUAL FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ON RIVERS STATE VAPP LAW

CEHRD is implementing a project entitled: Enhancing Prevention and Response to Gender Based Violence in Rivers State. The project is funded by the European Union with support from Agent for Citizen-Driven Transformation and the British Council. The project seeks to initiate advocacies and sensitization to VAPP implementing institutions and the local communities of Tai, Eleme and Port Harcourt City Local Government Areas in Rivers State about the VAPP Law. A baseline on GBV in the Niger Delta reveals that 35% of women in the Niger Delta have experienced either physical or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence (World Health Organization, WHO Report on GBV in Africa, https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/violence/en/). Gender-based violence (GBV) remains one of the most prevalent and persistent issues facing women and girls globally. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 35% of women experience some kind of physical and/or sexual violence at some point in their lives.

The VAPP Bill was passed into law in a bid to eliminate violence in private and public life; prohibit all forms of violence, including physical, sexual, psychological, domestic, harmful traditional practices; discrimination against persons and to provide maximum protection and effective remedies for victims and punishment of offenders. The content of the Act is rich in its provisions as it covers most of the prevalent forms of violence in Nigeria ranging from physical violence, psychological violence, sexual violence, harmful traditional practices, to socioeconomic violence.

Under the VAPP Act, rape, spousal battery, forceful ejection from home, forced financial dependence or economic abuse, harmful widowhood practices, female circumcision or genital mutilation, abandonment of children, harmful traditional practices, harmful substance attacks such as acid baths, political violence, forced isolation and separation from family and friends, depriving persons of their liberty, incest, indecent exposure and violence by state actors (especially government security forces) among others are punishable offences.

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