The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has known as for transformative reforms in legal guidelines, insurance policies, and institutional practices to speed up the event, safety, and full participation of ladies and women in Nigeria.
It cautioned that latest developments point out a troubling backsliding on positive factors beforehand achieved in advancing ladies’s rights and inclusion.
In a press release issued to commemorate Worldwide Girls’s Day (IWD) 2026 and signed by the manager director of CISLAC, Comrade Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, the organisation famous that though progress has been made through the years in elevating consciousness on gender equality, structural inequalities, discrimination, and restricted illustration in decision-making areas proceed to undermine the total participation of ladies in Nigeria’s democratic and improvement processes.
The organisation added that Nigeria should transfer past symbolic commitments and undertake deliberate gender transformation, together with reforms that deal with gaps in legal guidelines, insurance policies, and justice techniques affecting ladies’s rights and alternatives.