MEDIA RELEASE
31 March 2014
Global Network urges Government of Nigeria to address child marriage, child trafficking
ECPAT International releases latest country monitoring report, the status of action against commercial sexual exploitation of children in Nigeria
The 59th session on the commission of women will take place in New York fron the 9th to 20th of March 2015.WOCON is fully represented in this event. the session will address opportunities of achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women in post -2015 development Agenda.
The session will also address opportunities for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women in the post-2015 development agenda.
Boko Haram is NOT an Insurgency but a Foreign Terrorist Sect
First let me formally congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Prof. Yemi Osibajo on their assumption of the mantle of leadership of my country Nigeria.
I also commend the. President on his comprehensive and apt inauguration speech that sought to address almost all areas of grave concern to Nigerians at this critical period of our history.
It is gratifying to note for example that the President intends to address the menace of Boko Haram headlong.
IMADR-WOCON Joint Oral Statement: 29th session of the Human Rights Council
Item 2: Interactive Dialogue on OHCHR oral update on atrocities committed by the terrorist group Boko Haram and its effects on human rights in the affected States
1July 2015
Thank you Mr. President,
....."Standing to the right is Women Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON)'s Treasurer/Chief Accountant, Mr. Kunle Adeogun as he receives a signed copy of the MOU from the Chief of Mission, International Office of Migration (IOM), Ms. Enira Krdzalic (standing left) in Abuja last week, where the final signing formalities of the newly-awarded Project on "PREVENTION OF ILLEGAL MIGRATION & TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS" by IOM to WOCON was held.
The International Organization on Migration sponsored the project with support from the European Union in sensitizing members of the communities in seme and idiroko border towns where there is a high prevalence of Human trafficking and Illegal migration. on the 28th of August 2015 the WOCON team organized a press conference and policy dialogue on this issue. In attendance were the Zonal Coordinator NAPTIP Mr. Famakin, Seme Comptroller Nigeria Immigration Service and the Police Force Seme.
WOCON invited to TVC to speak on the topic " should prostitution be decriminalized"From left, Wocon's Mr. Adeogun, Producer of the Program, Wocon's Project Coordinator, Morenike who was on e Show "TRENDS", and to the right, the Human Rights Activist Lawyer, Barr. Onyeso who also featured on the Show at TVC's Premises in Ikosi-Ketu, Lagos State
