Overcoming Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Lagos State's Experience, by Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT)

• Jurisdiction: South Africa
• Author: Ngozi J. Udombana
• DOI: 10.25159/2522-6800/6659
• Published date: 01 December 2019
• Date: 01 December 2019
• Pages: 1-5
• Published By: UNISA Press

Southern African Public Law

https://doi.org/10.25159/2522-6800/6659

https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/SAPL

ISSN 2522-6800 (Online)

Volume 34 | Number 2 | 2019 | #6659 | 5 pages

© Unisa Press 2019

Book Review

Overcoming Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Lagos

State’s Experience, by Lagos State Domestic and Sexual

Violence Response Team (DSVRT)

Absun Ventures Publishers, Lagos. 2017. 143pp. ISBN: 978-978-962-746-2

Reviewed by Ngozi J Udombana

Associate Professor and Head, Akinola Aguda Postgraduate School,

Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies,

University of Lagos Campus, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria.

ebubechi8@yahoo.com.

Domestic and sexual violence are twin societal vices that have ravaged humanity since

the beginning of time. Unfortunately, with the passage of time, they have become

increasingly more regular and widespread. The consequences, which include physical,

psychological, social and health risk factors, are quite devastating for both the victims,

and their families and friends. Available recent statistics show that:

a. One in three women and one in four men experience violence from their

partners in their lifetimes.

b. One in three teens e xperience sexual or physical abuse or threats from a

boyfriend or girlfriend in one year.

c. One in five women are survivors of rape.

d. One in two women and one in five men have experienced some form of sexual

violence in their lives.

e. One in four women and one in six men were sexually abused before the age of

eighteen.

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