NHRC Takes Campaign Against Child Abuse, Harmful Practices To Kuje

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has intensified its campaign against child abuse and harmful traditional practices, warning that violations of children’s rights in communities across Nigeria remain a major threat to the country’s future.
At a community sensitisation programme in Pegi Community, Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, the executive secretary of the NHRC, Tony Ojukwu, said incidents of neglect, violence, child labour, early marriage, female genital mutilation and exclusion of children from decisions affecting their lives were still widespread despite existing legal protections.
Ojukwu, who was represented by the director of the commission’s Women and...