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African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) has called connected governments astatine each levels to see men successful Gender-based Violence (GBV) prevention frameworks.
The founding enforcement manager of the centre, Dr Otive Igbuzor, made the telephone astatine the unveiling of an online people connected Male Feminism for Prevention of GBV successful Nigeria and Africa.
The task tagged ‘Male Feminists Network’ (MFN) is aimed astatine gathering a state wherever men and women unrecorded escaped from violence, discrimination, and inequality.
Igbuzor said the Male Feminist Network (MFN) was conceived arsenic a bold and transformative inaugural to situation patriarchal norms and mobilise men arsenic allies successful the combat against gender-based violence.
The mission, according to him, is to train, mentor, and mobilise antheral leaders and grassroots influencers who volition champion feminist values, situation harmful stereotypes, and beforehand sex justness crossed Nigeria.
“It is astir creating a Nigeria wherever everyone—man, woman, oregon child—can unrecorded escaped from fearfulness and discrimination. Let past grounds that successful our generation, Nigerian men chose the way of equality—and successful doing so, we transformed our federation for good.”
Igbuzor said the strategy is to bid astatine slightest 1,000 antheral leaders crossed Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, physique a web of 10,000 certified antheral feminists successful the coming years.
“Men and women crossed Nigeria—and so Africa—can present register, learn, interact, and get certified arsenic antheral feminists from anywhere.
“Gender-based unit remains 1 of the astir pervasive quality rights violations successful Nigeria. Reports bespeak that implicit 35% of Nigerian women person experienced carnal violence, and galore much look emotional, sexual, oregon economical abuse.
“We cannot extremity GBV by focusing connected women alone. Men indispensable beryllium portion of the solution—not arsenic spectators, but arsenic progressive champions of justice, equality, and nonviolence.
“The MFN Digital Course embodies this philosophy. It is designed to alteration mindsets, equip men with feminist knowledge, and mobilize them for sustained advocacy and assemblage action.
“As we unveil this integer level today, fto maine stress that exertion is not the end; it is the means. The existent translation volition travel from however we usage this level to alteration hearts, homes, and institutions.
“To authorities -integrate antheral engagement into nationalist and state-level GBV prevention frameworks.To donors and improvement partners – proceed to put successful integer and societal innovation for sex equality.
“To the backstage sector- mainstream antheral allyship into workplace civilization and firm responsibility. To Nigerian men, instrumentality this course, get certified, and articulation the movement. Be the alteration cause your assemblage needs.
“We are demonstrating that men tin beryllium partners—not perpetrators—in gathering a conscionable society. We are proving that exertion tin beryllium a instrumentality for liberation, not oppression; and that acquisition tin dismantle the precise structures that perpetuate unit and discrimination,” helium added.
Earlier successful her opening speech, manager of Development astatine the Centre LSD, Dr Margaret Fagboyo, said implicit the years, Gender Based Violence has been driven by women and women’s enactment only, adding that sustainable alteration tin lone hap erstwhile men are not passive observers but progressive allies.
She said: “Today’s lawsuit marks a singular measurement successful our committedness to gathering a much inclusive and equitable nine wherever antheral and women basal broadside by broadside successful the pursuit of sex pursuit and prevention of unit successful each its forms.”
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