Women Protest Against Suspension Of Safe Abortion Guidelines In Lagos

By Segun Kasali
Aug 29, 2022

Hundreds of women marched to the office of the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in Alausa, Ikeja, protesting the suspension of Guidelines on Safe Termination of Pregnancy for Legal Indications.

The Executive Director of Women Advocates Research Documentation Centre, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, over the weekend led other protesting women groups and civil society organisations representatives.

Continued: https://tribuneonlineng.com/women-protest-against-suspension-of-safe-abortion-guidlines-in-lagos/


Nigeria – Women groups protest suspension of safe abortion, storm Sanwo-Olu’s office

AUGUST 24, 2022

Juliana Francis and Godstime Simon

Hundreds of women on Tuesday marched to the Office of the Lagos State Governor,
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in Alausa, Ikeja, protesting the suspension of safe
abortion.

The Executive Director of Women Advocates Research Documentation Centre, Dr.
Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, led it.  Other
protesters were women groups and civil society organisations representatives.

https://theeagleonline.com.ng/women-groups-protest-suspension-of-safe-abortion-storm-sanwo-olus-office/


More women may die as Trump creates $600m gap in funding, Nigerian activists cry out

More women may die as Trump creates $600m gap in funding, Nigerian activists cry out

On March 17, 2018
By Josephine Agbonkhese

One year after US President Donald Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy, otherwise known as the Global Gag Rule, women’s rights activists in Nigeria have decried the policy’s effect on disadvantaged women and girls in the country.

The document, which prohibits the use of US aid money for abortions, prevents NGOs from using private funds for abortion services, from referring women to groups that provide abortions, and even from offering information on services such as contraceptives, has, in effect, created a $600m funding gap on maternal health services’ delivery worldwide.

Continued: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/women-may-die-trump-creates-600m-gap-funding-nigerian-activists-cry/