PROTECTION OF WOMEN AGAINST DISCRIMINATORY LAWS, POLICIES AND PRACTICES IN NIGERIA: AN APPRAISAL

📄 Project Abstract

Human rights are rights that have come to be guaranteed over time, to all men and women, irrespective of race or creed. These rights extend to even the unborn, in certain circumstances. However, in many societies, women are subject to discriminatory tendencies in the form of laws, policies and practices that derogate from their human rights, simply became of their gender. Many international instruments have been put in place to stem these negative tendencies, especially through the works of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Labour Organization (I.L.O) In Nigeria, for instance, women tend to suffer inequalities in the social, political , economic and cultural fields. This is notwithstanding the fact that there are formal provisions on the statute books that guarantees equality to all before the law. As the 'grundnorm,' all the Constitution made for Nigeria with their fundamental rights provisions envisage equality of all ...