The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, says it will partner with the judiciary and other relevant arms of government in the country to bring perpetrators of sexual and gender-based violence to book.
Executive Secretary of the Commission, Tony Ojukwu, stated this at the opening of the second public sitting of the Special Investigative Panel on sexual and gender-based violence in Abuja on Monday.
The increase in violence against women and girls had become very prominent during the lockdown owing to the COVID-19, in 2020. This has heightened the need for intervention by stakeholders to prevent the disturbing trend.
The NHRC, through its Investigative Panel on sexual and gender-based violence, constituted in 2019, has put measures to tackle this form of human rights violation.
The panel sitting in FCT, Adamawa, Lagos, Cross River, Sokoto, and Ebonyi state is supported by the European Union and the United Nations with the target of eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls by 2030.