A civil society organization, International Alert, IA, with the support of UKAID, has expressed its readiness to enlighten victims of Gender-based Violence, GBV, on how to get access to justice.
The Project Manager of IA, Momoh Jimoh, disclosed this to journalists in Gusau, Zamfara State capital during a sensitization seminar organized for communities from Tsafe and Birnin Magaji local government areas.
Jimoh said the seminar was organized to train community first responders on physiological first aid aimed at promoting stability, accountability and access to justice across the North-West.
According to him, the organization intends to enlighten vulnerable people in selected communities where people lack access to justice, especially concerning GBV and other security issues.
“My organization has established platforms to further rights of women been affected by GBV and other related cases being caused by insecurity in the pioneer Kaduna and Zamfara states. We vowed to educate communities on how best they would acquire access to justice and resist injustice.
“We also have to commend the Zamfara State Ministry of Women and Children for assisting our organization to continue from where we stopped especially after the expiration period of our presence in the state,” Momoh said.
Speaking earlier, the Zamfara State Executive Director of Voluntary Aid Initiative (VAI), Musa Umar Aboki, said the main aim of the programme is to sensitize first responders to report cases of SGBV to Safe Centres being established across the targeted communities.
Aboki stated that by receiving the report, the Safe Centre would link the SGBV survivors to numerous services including legal, health, physiological and economic scheme, with a view to ensure that adequate measures are taken for the protection of their rights.