Injustice Is Actual (IIR), a civic group, has educated and empowered 100 ladies in Lagos State on well being and human rights.
The occasion in Ikeja geared up members with essential data and abilities to assist them recognise and confront injustices of their varied spheres of endeavour.
This system included free complete coaching centered on understanding when and the way rights may be violated, enabling attendees to determine varied types of human rights violation. The occasion additionally featured a free medical outreach by Dr Simi Well being Care Restricted and Valuable Sight Foundation, amongst others.
Talking on the occasion, the CEO of Injustice Is Actual, Ngozi Molokwu, described the marketing campaign as an enormous step in the direction of enlightening members on figuring out the various manifestations of injustice and tips on how to get up towards it.
“We imagine in empowered ladies, an empowered nation. Via this empowerment program, we’ll encourage the ladies to advocate for his or her rights, their well being, and the rights of others,” she mentioned.
She said that Injustice is a Actual advocate for Nigerians who expertise human rights violations at residence in Nigeria or the diaspora, saying, “Right this moment we have now an empowerment program for 100 ladies, which includes medical checks.
“We have now collaborated with a couple of organisations. The Dr Simi Foundation is doing medical well being checks. The Valuable Sight Foundation does eyeglasses and eye checks. We have now Yaba College of Technology on the bottom, coaching younger ladies aged 18 to 24 on ICT. After which we have now our in-house lawyer, the Injustice lawyer, masking human rights violations.”
Molokwu added that members are enlightened on human rights violations and tips on how to report human rights violations when their human rights are being violated.
She identified that the programme is annual, and that is our first maiden version, saying that the imaginative and prescient is for us to run it twice a yr.
Molokwu added, “We need to rotate the programme all through the communities in Lagos. We’re in Ikeja now, and our subsequent plan is to have it in Ikorodu, Yaba, or on the island.”
