A criminal justice-focused civil society group, Hope Behind Bars Africa (HBBA), in partnership with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has called for urgent gender-sensitive reforms and a moratorium on the death penalty in Nigeria, following the release of a study exposing systemic injustices faced by women on death row.
The NHRC disclosed this in a press statement on Monday.
The study, titled ‘Gender and the Death Penalty in Nigeria,’ was unveiled at a validation meeting in Abuja on Monday, supported by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and the French Development
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