VIOLENCE AGAINST MEN: THE NEED FOR GENDER SYMMETRICAL IN THE PROVISIONS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST PERSONS (PROHIBITION) ACT, 2015
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VIOLENCE AGAINST MEN:, GENDER, VIOLENCE AGAINST PERSONS (PROHIBITION) ACT, 2015, NigeriaAbstract
The Nigerian Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015 not only seeks to prohibit violence against persons but aimed at eliminating violence in public and private life of victims. It provides for punishment for perpetrators of violence and remedies for victims. No doubt, the Act made provisions for violence towards men and women generally. Early Nigerian criminal statutes on crime such as Penal Code and Criminal Code defined some of the offences covered in the Act either directly or indirectly. Adopting a doctrinal approach with a cursory look at some specific offences in Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015, such as female genital mutilation, harmful widowhood practices etc. reveals that women related offences were specifically captured by the Act. It is however the findings of this work that men related violence such as castration, conscription in war times, genital torture etc. were neglected. Hence, the call for gender symmetrical in subsequent reviews more so that many States in Nigeria are already domesticating the law. This recommendation is at the time of insurgency in Nigeria when men undergo all forms of men related violence and with impunity.
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