With incidence of gender-based violence (GBV) increasing by the day, the United Nations Spotlight Initiative Nigeria, in collaboration with the European Union.
SGBV: FCT secures one conviction from 444 reported cases -Official If we can push for the establishment of special courts that will preside over sexual and domestic violence cases, it will go a long way in dispensing justice to survivors.
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The desk officer of the response team for sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), federal capital territory (FCT), Ngozi Ike, has disclosed out of 444 SGBV cases reported in the city, only one conviction has been secured.
The official, who blamed the development on slow trials, advocated special courts for cases of sexual violence in the country. She said the slow conviction of perpetrators is threatening progress made against the vice.