MEDIA ADVISORY
Alliances for Africa (AfA), in collaboration with Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF) and IHRDA (Institute for Human Rights in Africa) invites you to a Media Briefing on a Gender Justice Case before the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja, Nigeria.
What: Briefing on the Gender Justice Case
When: Tuesday, 16h September 2014 at 11:30 am – 1:30pm
Where: Onyx Hotel, 12 Ayedun Close off Gwandu Street,
Near Sahad Stores off Ahmadu Bello, Area 11
Garki Abuja – FCT, Nigeria
Who: Alliances for Africa (AfA), Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF) and IHRDA (Institute for Human Rights in Africa)
Why: To inform on the Gender Justice Case challenging Gender-Based Violence and discrimination against women in Abuja, Nigeria
A media and advocacy brief on the case together with information about the case before the ECOWAS Court would be presented to the media and civil society organisations present at the event.
Speakers:
- Ayisha Osori, Executive Director, Nigerian Women Trust Fund
- Osai Ojigho, Deputy Executive Director, Alliances for Africa
- Dorothy Njemanze, Founder, Dorothy Njemanze Foundation
- Gaye Sowe, Senior Legal Officer, Institute for Human Rights and Development
- Bolaji Gabari, Legal Counsel, SPA Ajibade & Co
- Jude Ilo, Nigeria Country Director, Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
AfA will also be promoting the use of the hashtag #gendercase for updates.
Kindly share your twitter handles and media house with the undersigned in your confirmation so that we can share updates to you via social media as well.
NB. Light refreshments will be served.
About Alliances for Africa
Alliances for Africa (AfA) is an African non-governmental peace, human rights and development organisation.AfA’s mission is to enhance and strengthen on a sustainable basis, local, national, sub-regional and international institutions in Africa, by being active in the monitoring, advancing, promoting and protection of human rights, peace and sustainable development initiatives. AfA has Observer Status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and is in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). AfA is the secretariat of the Nigerian Feminist Forum (NFF) and sits on the Executive Committee of the Coalition for an Effective African Court and is on the Steering Committee of the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR)
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