In 2022, we rounded off a project on Career Barriers and Workplace Sexual Harassment against Young Women in the Federal Capital Territory where we engaged about 1060 young women from private, public, and development sectors. From our findings, it was obvious that more work needs to be done to conquer the many barriers women face[…]
A Report of Activities During the 16 Days Of Activism Conducted by HEIR Women Hub in 2022 Every 25th of November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the 10th of December is Human Rights Day. This movement was initiated by activists at the induction of the Women’s Global Leadership[…]
The 16 days of activism wouldn’t have been successful without you all. We are short of words for all the support we got over the last 16 days. We appreciate all our guests who contributed massively during all our live sessions. To everyone who took out time to follow our conversation, we want to say[…]
HEIR Women Hub was at THE PUBLIC HEARING/SUBMISSION OF a MEMORANDUM ON A BILL FOR AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WIDOWS AND ALL FORMS OF REPRESSIVE AND DEGRADING WIDOWHOOD PRACTICES AND FOR RELATED MATTERS; THE DEFINITION OF THE OFFENCE OF IMAGE BASED SEXUAL ABUSE UNDER THE ACT MAKE PROVISION FOR PENALTY[…]
A RECAP OF HEIR WOMEN HUB MEETING WITH GENDER MOBILE INITIATIVE. HEIR Women Hub met virtually with Gender Mobile to discuss our research findings on Career Barriers and workplace sexual harassment against young women in Nigeria. Blessing Sani, the communications Officer at HEIR Women Hub began by welcoming everyone to the meeting and giving a[…]
PRESS RELEASE The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on the 19th of August 2022 handed over a letter of Provincial Registration as a member of the National Anti-corruption Coalition (NACC) to Blessing Sani, the Communications Officer at HEIR Women Hub in their office in Abuja. ICPC had earlier declared sexual harassment[…]
The HEIR Women Hub team did justice at the radio interview on Love 104.5 FM Abuja. The topic of discussion was, “WORKPLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT: An Intricate Epidemic. This is proudly supported by Ford Foundation. The team was able to extensively discuss sexual harassment, its forms, its prevalence, and ways it can be curbed. #lovefm #HEIRWomenHub[…]
HEIR WOMEN HUB Presents an Instagram live session Supported by Ford Foundation. Theme: The VAPP Act: a tool for tackling workplace sexual harassment against young women. Date: Friday 1st July 2022 Time: 7:00 pm (WAT) Venue: Instagram (@heirwoman) Hosted by: Añuli Aniebo Ola-Olaniyi, ED HEIR Women Hub. Guest Speaker: Mrs. Ngozi Ike, The Secretary, Social[…]
Photo from left to right: Añuli Aniebo Ola-Olaniy, ED HWD, Adetutu Oshagbami FO HWD, Blessing Ejeh, PO HWD, Osai Ojigho CD AI, Cecilia Oluwafisiayo Aransiola, Research AI, Blessing Sani, CO HWD, Michael, Media AI. The HEIR Women Development team went to Amnesty International Abuja on Tuesday the 26th of April 2022 for an advocacy visit[…]
Young women go through a lot in our society today. Not just today, it has been so for ages. Although better now, women face a lot of biases. Some of these biases have made some women build barriers around their lives. They’ve spelled out how they act, relate, and connect to the world. The truth[…]