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UNODC Mainstreams Gender Dimensions of Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism

There is increasing recognition that women and men can be vulnerable to terrorism in different ways and that criminal justice measures in response to these crimes must be informed by a robust gender sensitive perspective. This is particularly so with the well-documented impacts of the Boko Haram violence on women, girls, men and boys in North-East Nigeria. Women and girls have been affected through particular forms of violence, including mass kidnappings, forced marriages and sexual violence, which have emerged as key tactics of the terrorist group used to seek its ideological goals and sustain its operations. [Read More]

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The role of Sport in promoting peace and justice

"I was told that in Nigeria, football is passion, but it is a lie because it is more than that. In Nigeria, I was told that football is love, but it is a lie it is more than that. In Nigeria, I was told that football is a religion, but it is a lie. It is more than that. In Nigeria, football is life". This statement was made by FIFA President Gianni Infantino during a visit in Lagos in February 2018.

It is this spirit that the United Nations General Assembly sought to convoke when adopting the  2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In an unprecedented fashion world leaders recognized the "contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect and the contributions it makes to the empowerment of women and of young people, individuals and communities as well as to health, education and social inclusion objective."[Read More]

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Young African justice coders take on Facebook's latest hackathon challenge

29 March 2019 - When university students are up all night, it's usually because they are either partying or studying before exams. But last weekend, despite the inviting evening weather in Lagos, 50 undergraduate students from ten Nigerian universities stayed up through Friday night for an entirely different reason: selected from over 400 applicants, they were planning, designing, and coding in the most recent UNODC-supported  Hackathon for Justice, trying to come up with technological ways to make the world a safer place.[Read More]

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