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abujagirl
Guest
The Nigerian Senate is set to pass a watered down version of the Gender Equality Bill. The new version of the bill doesn't do much to protect the rights of the Nigerian woman as promised by the original bill.
Women groups need to mobilize and with one voice call for the return of the original Gender Equality Bill.
Here are 10 reasons women need to protest against the passage of the new bill:
1. In the new Gender Equality bill, women do not have equal right to citizenship or indigeneship as men. A woman cannot confer her citizenship on her child.
2. The new bill also does not protect a woman's right to inherits her husband's property if he dies suddenly without a will.
3. The new bill does not automatically transfer guardianship of children to a woman if her husband is deceased.
4. The new gender equality bill does not specifically forbid the discrimination of persons based on gender.
5. The new bill does not enforce parity in distribution of scholarship, school enrollment and bursaries between men and women.
6. Even when the new bill is passed, widows can still be subjected to inhuman, humiliating or degrading treatment
7. Women's rights to inherit their parents properties are also threatened by the new gender equality bill.
8. Under the new bill, a widow can be denied the right to remarry.
9. The right of a women to terminate a pregnancy in cases of sexual assault, rape, incest, and where the continued pregnancy endangers the mental and physical health of the mother or the life of the mother or the foetus, is not granted in the new gender equality bill.
10. A woman can be forced to revert to using her maiden name after the dissolution of her marriage is the new bill passed.
11. The new Gender equality bill does not prohibit ''all forms of violence against elderly women
including sexual abuse, and discrimination based on age''.
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Women are the bedrock of every society. Continuity of society is threatened when the rights of the woman is threatened. Nigerian women need to unite and say 'No' to discrimination.
Women groups need to mobilize and with one voice call for the return of the original Gender Equality Bill.
Here are 10 reasons women need to protest against the passage of the new bill:
1. In the new Gender Equality bill, women do not have equal right to citizenship or indigeneship as men. A woman cannot confer her citizenship on her child.
2. The new bill also does not protect a woman's right to inherits her husband's property if he dies suddenly without a will.
3. The new bill does not automatically transfer guardianship of children to a woman if her husband is deceased.
4. The new gender equality bill does not specifically forbid the discrimination of persons based on gender.
5. The new bill does not enforce parity in distribution of scholarship, school enrollment and bursaries between men and women.
6. Even when the new bill is passed, widows can still be subjected to inhuman, humiliating or degrading treatment
7. Women's rights to inherit their parents properties are also threatened by the new gender equality bill.
8. Under the new bill, a widow can be denied the right to remarry.
9. The right of a women to terminate a pregnancy in cases of sexual assault, rape, incest, and where the continued pregnancy endangers the mental and physical health of the mother or the life of the mother or the foetus, is not granted in the new gender equality bill.
10. A woman can be forced to revert to using her maiden name after the dissolution of her marriage is the new bill passed.
11. The new Gender equality bill does not prohibit ''all forms of violence against elderly women
including sexual abuse, and discrimination based on age''.
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Women are the bedrock of every society. Continuity of society is threatened when the rights of the woman is threatened. Nigerian women need to unite and say 'No' to discrimination.
