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By Bukky Shonibare and Dabesaki Mac-Ikemenjima

This year’s celebration of International Women’s Day in March was special as it marked 30 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. While this milestone under the UN theme “For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment” calls for celebrating the strides that have been made in advancing women’s rights, it also presents an opportunity for sober reflection on what remains to be done to attain gender parity on many levels.

In Nigeria, the scourge of gender-based violence (GBV) remains one of the most pressing social challenges, casting a long shadow over millions of women’s lives. Across the country, individuals, particularly women and girls, grapple with the harrowing realities of different forms of GBV alongside systemic inequities that perpetuate cycles of violence. Yet, the available data to measure the scale of gender-based violence, and, consequently, the adequacy of measures to combat it, especially at subnational levels, remains insufficient.

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