The Federal Government has said that efforts are on to develop standard operating procedures to create a legal pathway for the prosecution of school-related gender-based violence.
The Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi made the revelation on Tuesday in Abuja, adding that this will help combat the growing rate of sexual and gender-based violence in the country.
The Minister of Justice also said that the initiative will propel further collaboration with key ministries of Women Affairs and Justice to give rise to a more robust and readily available pattern for a solution room.
This, the minister said, is to combat the growing rate of sexual and gender-based violence, and SGBV, in the country.
“The ministry has been a beneficiary of numerous programmes under the EU/UN spotlight initiatives, in partnership with UN Women, UNESCO, UNICEF, and UNDP.
“These are programmes centred on criminal justice actions at the federal and state levels. The ministry will be launching the SoP for the prosecution of GBV.
“It is funded by UNESCO under the EU/UN Spotlight Initiative; the SoP is targeted at determining and responding to GVB when it occurs in our schools.
“This initiative propels further collaboration with key ministries of Women Affairs and Justice to give rise to a more robust, real-time, and readily available pattern for a solution room.”
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