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National Communication Strategy Ending all forms of Gender Based Violence and Harmful Practices Against Women and Girls in Nigeria.

Over the years, violence against women and girls has remained one of the most prevalent human rights violation in the world. The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including hreats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life”. In Nigeria, violence against women is evident in many forms, including domestic, verbal, and physical abuse, rape and sexual assault, early and forced marriages, incest, female genital cutting, acid baths and outright killing.

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