Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

20

Feb

Physician warns parents on early child marriage

Joe CHILD MARRIAGE No Comments

Dr Patrick Okolie, an Abuja based, general medical practitioner, has advised parents, who still practice early child marriage, to have a change of heart, as it could endanger the child’s whole life. Okolie in Abuja on Tuesday said that early child marriage exposed young girls to Vesico Vagina Fistula (VVF). According to the doctors, VVF is …

12

Feb

IN DELHI (INDIA), WOMEN ARE STILL TORTURED FOR GIVING BIRTH TO GIRLS

Joe Right of women and girls, Right to life No Comments

Sweets if it’s a boy. But faces hang when a girl is born. That’s how an attendant at a government hospital describes the arrival of a newborn in Delhi. This lingering stress of bearing girls without giving birth to a boy allegedly drove a 27-year-old woman in Ambedkar Nagar to kill her three daughters and attempt suicide on Monday. Despite social …

02

Feb

Pastor Raped 16-Year-Old Girl To “Cleanse Her From Evil Spirits”

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A 16-year-old rape victim told Abuja High Court that the accused pastor poured anointing oil on her and raped her in the name of removing evil spirits inside her. According to the girl, Basil Princewill of Mountain Mover Fire Ministry Church, Nyanya, told her he had a revelation that her foundation was dirty and that her father’s wife was trying …

23

Jan

The girl-child as endangered specie

Joe Right of women and girls No Comments

By BILKIS BAKARE IN recent times, insurgent activities have taken a worrisome turn as more women and girls are now being recruited as suicide bombers. Few days ago at a crowded market in Damaturu, the capital city of Yobe State, North Eastern Nigeria, a 10- year- old girl blew up herself, killing over 15 people and injuring several others. This …

15

Jan

We’re not to blame for keeping babies in prison –Enobore, PRO, Nigerian Prisons

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Francis Enobore is the spokesman of the Nigerian Prisons Service and in this interview, he absolves the prison authorities of any blame for keeping babies with their mothers behind bars. Excerpts: In female prisons, what are the provisions for taking care of children? First, it is important to establish the sources of children in the prison. Sometimes, …

09

Jan

CHILD MARRIAGE: A VIOLATION OF GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS

Joe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD MARRIAGE No Comments

Child marriages result in serious violations of the rights of girls with long-lasting consequences. Girls and women who are forced into marriage are deprived of the right to decide whether or not to marry, whom to marry, when to marry, and whether and when to have children. Child marriages also contribute to violations of girls’ and women’s other …

02

Jan

Pastor jailed for 10 years for raping girl while father was present

Joe CHILD ABUSE, FOREIGN NEWS, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

A pastor who raped a girl as she lay blindfolded on a bed has been jailed for more than 10 years in what a Perth judge has described as depraved and degrading offending. Dawid Volmer, 41, had advertised sexual massages on Craigslist, initially meeting the girl and her father, who cannot be named, when she was 12, although her father said she was 16. …

25

Dec

INCREDIBLE: Woman gives birth after 14 years pregnancy!

Joe Right to life No Comments

A woman – Mercy James miraculously gave birth to a baby girl after 14 years of being pregnant. The baby was promptly and aptly christined Miracle. And why not? If the mother had delivered at the expected time the child would have been a teenager by now and possibly in secondary school at the JSS 3 level. Mercy, a single parent, said of her ordeal …

24

Dec

How rock crushed 50-year-old mother, 2 kids, grandchild in their sleep

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FIFTY-year-old Silifat Lawal, her husband, Ismail, her two children and her grandchild were forced to go to bed early penultimate Friday night by a torrential rain that fell in Abeokuta, Ogun State, oblivious of the dangers lurking in the dark. Lawal, her two children, 15-year-old Rasheedat; Semia, four and her grandchild, Moriamo had that night retired …

19

Dec

Pregnant woman, 7 children drown in Delta

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About eight persons including a pregnant woman and seven children are feared dead as they reportedly drowned in the River Niger following the rise in the level of water due to incessant rainfall and opening of the Lagdo Dam in Cameroun. The victims, who were said to be missing since the current flood ravaging parts of Delta State started, were said …

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