Discrimination against Nigerian Women, Introduction
Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome
Introduction
Discrimination against women is defined by Article 1 of the
United Nations Convention onthe Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women
of 1979 (heretofore referred to as the1979 Convention or CEDAW) as "any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis ofsex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment orexercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men andwomen, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural,civil or any other field." By May 2001, 168 countries had ratified CEDAW. Forty-six of them areAfrican. Nigeria signed the convention on 23 April 1984 and ratified it without any reservationson 13 June 1985, and it ratified the optional protocol to CEDAW on 8 September 2001. It madeits first report to the Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women in 1986, and submitted its second report in 1998. Among other things, his paper focuses on the extent to which Nigerian women's de jure rights line up with their de facto experiences. The full paper is available at: https://shorturl.at/nqKX3. Watch this space for a multipart reading of the entire paper.
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