ORANGE CAMPAIGN 2020: Isu Women Join the World on Sensitisation Program
Orange Campaign is a global call to prevent, report and raise awareness of the negative impact that gender based violence has on women, girl child, society and the social fabric of a community. This is an annual United Nations campaign which starts today the 25th of November and ends 16th of December.
This year women across the world suffered from Covid19 and continued gender based violence pandemic. statistics showed a spike in abuse of women during ‘lockdown’ with 1 in 3 women and girls experiencing physical or sexual violence, most frequently by an intimate partner.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Diaspora Affairs who is also an ISU Woman and a Women’s Empowerment Activist (currently the new Board Chair of Albertiqs Women’s Foundation) activated her fellow ISU women in ISU LGA HeadQuarters to join the world in raising the profile of this campaign so as to challenge the ugly generational treatment of the female gender! Hon. Cllr. Celia Osakwe-Hibbert stated that, “we they ISU women must stand up with women across the world and be counted. One violence on a girl child is far too many; one brutalisation, one rape, one mutilation, are all far too many”!
Hon Celia urged women and men to join nearby events to make this campaign spread far and wide.
It is said that 71% of all human trafficking victims worldwide are women and girls. 3 out of 4 of these women end up sexually exploited!
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