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CONTRIBUTION TO UNDERSTANDING THE SEXUAL RIGHTS OF YOUTHS, GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN THE FACE OF POVERTY
About this event: 3rd Africa Conference on Sexual Health And Rights Abuja 2008
Related to country: Nigeria

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CONCURRENT SESSION 2 FACILITATED BY ACTIONAID NIGERIA AT THE 3RD AFRICA CONFERENCE ON SEXUAL HEALTH AND RIGHTS 4TH-7TH FEBRUARY, 2008.

Freeing young people from the shackles of abuse, inhuman treatment and gender-based violence requires concerted efforts to be made in a number of areas needing urgent attention vis:

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Sensitizing the general populace about what human rights are and how they can be demanded: An average African society views human rights as a western culture and doing things from a right-based perspective as neo-colonialism. The right holders in a typical African community are not aware of their rights and do not even know they have the power to hold duty bearers accountable whenever they deviate. Therefore, the duty bearers who should in normal circumstances be seeing to the respect, promotion and fulfillment of the rights of the common man who they govern are the ones that are often responsible for the gross violation of the common man’s rights through wanton plundering of the treasury of African countries, commado-like way of governance and total disrespect for the principle of Accountability.

The citizenry has to be educated on Human Rights as the first step towards demanding for one’s rights is to know one has rights. The sociopolitical landscape also has to be made conducive and devoid of intimidation of the common man for everyone to be able to freely talk about issues affecting her/him in any way.

·The capacity of both duty-bearers and right-holders should be built and their capacity gaps analyzed by development partners to know why sexual health rights are being violated, who is responsible for the violations as well as what can be done to change the status quo. Duty-bearers are at times unaware that their actions/inactions can lead to gross violations of the rights of right-holders.

Efforts should be intensified on advocating for sexual rights of young people with policy makers to ensure that International/Regional Human Rights instruments that Nigeria is a signatory to, are domesticated and their dictates applied in the day to day governance of the nation.

·Many young people choose to suffer in silence when their rights are violated due to the wide socio-economic gap between them and those violating their rights. In some cases, the violators are depended on for education, shelter and food. The greatest fear therefore, is that all the “privileges” enjoyed through those they depend on would stop if they dare raise an alarm.
Young people need to be economically empowered so they can be less dependent on relations and so called philanthropists who turn around to abuse them and violate their rights.

February 11, 2008 | 11:03 AM Comments  0 comments

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