IWD: Rights on paper must translate to justice for women – Iyabo Obasanjo

A governorship aspirant connected the level of the All Progressives Congress, APC, successful Ogun State, Iyabo Obasanjo, has celebrated Nigerian women portion calling for greater justness and decisive enactment to guarantee equality and opportunities for women and girls.

In a connection issued connected Sunday to people International Women’s Day, Obasanjo, said the yearly planetary observance serves arsenic a reminder that advancement for women indispensable spell beyond policies and promises to existent alteration successful society.

“Fellow Ogun Women, today, we articulation millions astir the satellite to observe International Women’s Day,” she said. “This year’s theme, ‘Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls’ is simply a almighty telephone to determination beyond promises and toward results.”

She noted that though galore countries present person ineligible frameworks meant to support women, the world successful galore societies inactive falls abbreviated of those commitments.

“We unrecorded successful a clip erstwhile astir nations person laws connected insubstantial that support women. We person policies for adjacent pay, laws against discrimination, and quotas for representation. But arsenic we look around, we spot that a close connected insubstantial is not the aforesaid arsenic justness successful signifier successful our country,” she said.

According to Obasanjo, justness should beryllium reflected successful the mundane experiences of women, whether successful professional, societal oregon organization spaces.

“Justice is what happens erstwhile a pistillate tin locomotion into a courtroom...