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we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we're living. what do you think's been driving to home? a tennessee market? counting the cost on al jazeera with hi, i'm sunny. ok to day on the street. we're looking at the fight. the gender equality in nigeria, just recently the federal parliament was presented with a full life gender, a quality bills, and they dismissed all 5 of them. that was until women started to protest. let me give you an idea of the landscape in nigeria so you can understand what women who are fighting for gender equality are up against 36 states. all of the state governors ah, male. so we're talking about women's rights and representation on this show. a team in a blue jeep or to nigeria,

talk to see what women on the street had to say about it. let's take a look. there is no pets in the country with women actually been represented property is so, and it's been a month for so long. we actually need something to be done about it, because we believe that when it comes to women's rights and everything, if we women actually do, should be able to represent ourselves better. the men can speak for also on have content of us. for the voice of women will be hand wildlife nation on it. it us that from the grassroots, which is the community going to say hello to, i guess we have trauma abiola and indeed thank you so much. being part of ashley to day job, please introduce yourself til i guess and our audience who you are and what you do have for me. my name is chima agreeable. i'm the executive director decker. and g.

m. m. to convene of the state to the emergency g p, the movement, this article to hello, hello, abby. i la. nice to see you. please introduce yourself to al international audience . i am a viola acadia philosophy as a direct toll and i will gives research on documentation center. what see under katerina of women crystal godaddy, and in the welcome back to the stream these inches f i because so i'm a politician, a sure. all right, so audience, if you want to be part of this conversation, you on youtube, you can do so just jumping to the comment section, your discussions, your thoughts, your comments will be wrapped up in today's conversation. i am just thinking china . when was the last time you demonstrated, protested about gender equality and making sure that gender equality was in the way that nigeria approaches 8. what was the last thing if i tested 2022?

yes. and i'm the reason for this is because, 1st of all, it's shameful. it's absolutely shameful that in 2022 women in nigeria are still negotiating their rights as full citizens of nigeria. we come from a country where we have women, you know, the population of women's justice or to that of men. however, you said it's right, that is 60, most, none of them are women. we have had some states where the commissioners will women's affairs have been men, right. look at the numbers within our legislature, whether it's the upper house or the lower house. look at the numbers across the country. it's absolutely abhorrent. and i think the thing that gets me upset the most is the fact that this is in priority for our legislators. and so if this isn't a priority than what is in 2022 india, i'm just wondering when you look at that map for the state governors and not a single governor, is a woman. and women make up almost half the population in nigeria. worries going on

there is it's just old fashioned are actually contemporary missile. jenny, nigeria, it is contemporary, is a good goes by a good we don't do something about those who stack even, you know what to expect. what we've been doing is still going to get worse because he was conversations and you know that this young man a so much what i try to keep on the issue with the conversations like that here. yes. girls. at the university i was speaking on leaders. she just either shoot me a route each problem, students who would allow young with this just came to know the young man that tried to answer yes, but when the voice is over with. so the wise, so this is be,

you know, when you get off know, but right from the grass level, many human all from the local government level, one level house of assembly to the level. ringback know that every cell in the note and younger generations are coming to joining to that no one is really problematic . abiola, i want to share something with you. this came to us a little bit earlier on ad davis from and yet the one who talked about it's not a problem with the law or the constitution. i'm just going to pick up from that and then abby, ola, if you could please respond immediately after you see the video and you're in confusion provides for formally really quality and non discrimination on the basis of gender. women into society continue to face injustices and almost all this is often as a result of discipline entries, laws and policies. cultural and religious moms and practices and gender stereotypes

. among other things, we can make it all to clear that of the quality of new and is insufficient to address the marginalization over many nigeria. yeah. oh, so many qualities. not alone to address issues of to like quality my jr. that's correct. and i have the constitution it so it's problematic. i'm the car across the show it to the night and i can buy, goes through. so was brought together by some 22 men in making life a name. and you can see a little tough in the constitution, for example, on the issue of citizenship. but women in they did a lot of equal citizenship with internship is often not defined. so a while ago such an ass is section $42.00 that does with the usual of discrimination that are still crisis with that section. because within that section that i provide those which remove some rights for women. so, and so it's

a consulting if i could just add to a doctor of your life saying, i mean, look at the leadership of the country. right? and indie talked very rightly about the fact that we see these problems within all stays of the government, right? so federal state, local councils, what if we go back to the greatest prevails of governance, which is the federal government? we have a president who once said that his wife's lot, his wife belongs in the living room in the kitchen. and in the other room, we have legislators who have said on international women's day that the way to support we manage to marry more of them. we have a, a legislator who married a child and defended that action by saying who wasn't bound by the constitution. unicef reports that under age marriage rules by 22 percent with in a 4 year period. following that, sometimes when we talk about norms and cultures and when we talk about you know, and perceptions within society, we also have to point a finger back at the leaders because citizens will do what the leaders are doing. they will take as

a law without formal or informal what their leaders are doing and whether we like it or not. our legislators have not been true to true. we men representation in parliament. i'm. it's it on so that we have to thought that you know what, let's, let's look at what it's colombo, this. i mean, jimanez also spoken about the diseases. drain is, but then let's look at where we now like the practicality, all calm. yeah, she's young woman was in politics. we cd 17 once you step how you say, man, i'm going to stay in that get norton shoes. yeah. you know, we stop, you. busy running this things are always waiting for you. examining is, feels a little bit as soon as komatsu on august. you asked, where does your husband come from? if your husband does not come from way of learning from you cannot, you cannot gordion branch. you feel if you, if you come from a different place or if he, even if you come to some band with combo defend local governments as different shifts and you can one of many, all these things me, these things just points to one thing. i mean, we may, don't run, you don't belong it. which ever way if it is puts in place,

whichever way it is presented, it all comes down to our nice not your fault. you do not belong here. you should keep short, you should not be seen. you should not be head and get me over and over again. and it's the ghost writing for me that gambled to day. somebody call my cell. yes and ok. but what does this mean? you don't know what the other has. talked anyone from collecting people shouldn't have been there please, or diesel. my money's to be be use me me. i can be from where i was from the bus and i was my last somebody had the audacity to say would that was not stopped. remember, be pushed back and fight. you have to fight denison to me. will you show? yeah. it's promising that our own children actually going to use that to, to get our district behind you and like you and you have people telling, you know, it's not like that. it's good to be august. those not mount to that. even if one doesn't exist in this faith while who'd bad, why is example it will and we don't know, you just realize that if you're dead and just feel like, you know what, i feel my rights for my sense of the middle class one because medical i ignored

once you find out, you just realize how little, how but somebody, how on down the crystal sites you, i'm just not there. it's, it's not fair at all. she, she guess this is what i'm looking at here. so i'm, i'm, i'm thinking that the protesting has had an impact. when all of those 5 bills were dismissed. have a look here on my laptop, nigerian women protest, parliament rejection of pro quality bills. you know, this, this is for the benefit of our audience. and then i do in parliament recindes decision on gender quality bills. how fast did that happen, java? and does that mean something? giuliani is something to celebrate. what is not something to celebrate in its entirety? the 1st reason is why did we have to protest in the 1st place? one thing that nigerians have learned is that when legislators want to do something for themselves, they will do it in one day. right? we have seen across the country legislators will sit on the bill 1st reading, 2nd reading. it will go to their committee, they will come back, they will do

a 3rd reading and they will pass it into law. in one d, we're not asking for a gift. we're not asking for any favours. we're asking that anomalies it that exists within our post. you shall be corrected. now to the question you asked about how quickly that happened yesterday. it happened very quickly when you think about the fact that we shouldn't have been out on the street in the 1st place. on the day when we men should be celebrated globally, nigerian women were out on the street, said we don't want to be state less equal to get mine in the, in the, you know, in the mention that we don't want to be set because we get might now the snag with the house, you know, the house of representatives rescinding the decision on 3 bills. is that the senate has done nothing? and because this is the constitution amendment process, because the senate has done nothing, if we get to the end of this confusion amendment process and the senate doesn't do anything, it's still not a void. and let's not forget that even after this happens, it then has to go to the $36.00 states of the federal current i. we need 2 thirds of the state houses of assembly to say yes, that in itself already presented problem. because look at what look at all the work

we're having to do at the federal level. so it's absolutely absolutely problematic . it is completely shameful. that in 2022, we're having these conversations. and yes, so while we rejoice on the one hand, we are reminded deep down in our hearts about how long this journey is, the amount of patriarchy and massage any that we're up against. and we just continue to find comfort in ourselves. to be honest. i, i, bill and, and internet go ahead. yes. yeah. i think we need to celebrate our winter anyway. because this is the 1st time that's we're having this kind of victory and is the 1st time that we made our coming together, you know, to insist and demand that these us will be done. and i'm guessing we made up by the national assembly. it has never happened before, so where there and we were pushing against the usage in this, in the national assembly because of this of time, you know, for women. so we are familar, right? is it was an awful identity. the question of who we,

if we don't address this issue, we are no longer, you know, nigeria, so we, it. so it's, it's, it's some the attempt to then by surprise because the never expected. then i didn't when they came home, you know, to get in that regard. but what's in the form of sect thought if a mistake applied bids, you know, grassroots no dress, it was a site is harmful. currently, abby, on is half the country, not the everyone should have the same political views. but if you don't even have access to the political system, that is, ah, a lot of vents potentially, right? if you can use that power base as i a not as a lot of votes that stake yes. yeah. because that, that are quite or the issue of i and to make a strength. i will say that every time. and the truth of the matter is that the women in jekyll says it over to, besides. and so what does this also put in another table that we need to go back to the drawing board? i strategize very well on the next election was she'll be able to book that

numerical friends. and that's what we also showing by acquainted national assembly and good enough on the 8th of much. it was only not the national assembly was also happening simultaneously across the country. you know, so women, when occupying ad listed as of us, out of a family, you know, making the same demand. i'm, if it is a clear, we don't want to remain a 2nd class citizen, nor a treat, no surrender. and until when they resend the 5 bills, when asked, what sort of like we're asking for, if i gender abuse? who's talking to you at the area? he's talking to me. well we, we have a conversation with the national assembly, particularly as of representative from members of the us represents it's a rough comp around do you finish also at comparable when assisting the our do my exactly demo membership. there are no reducible debt. in minimum, dudley gothic nigerian citizens and well with what they offer done what it means

that they're partly news was they have ticket $3.00 to $5.00. yes. we know they'll go back and forth. so where expected that who would i? well, we're also working with them. i didn't appear a company offices, so we have women also ordered them accountable at that level. so we're doing up some to struck edge stop what i do, national assembly and also to go through services. i am going to share a couple of thoughts from social media in deposit case. he said that on social media, some of these more such a mystic thoughts are out there and that it will kind of really need to think about how do you educate the population. so they understand what gender quality really means. so this is edgy for, he says regarding marginalization, the women themselves are causing the marginalization, the women hardly stand for fellow women. most times they prefer male leadership, and then one more here. terrific. i'm going to say i beg to disagree because i'm sure that's what he meant. perhaps you can give examples where injustice and my

conversation has happened. women in nigeria get equal opportunities in terms of employment and treatment, just like their male counterparts. we're talking about political representation here, specifically in day. i'm bounce off the back of those tea tweets thoughts. i mean, if it's such a thing on social media, you can, you know, leave absence with no data sets to walk with. and that's what we're seeing here. we are women and it's also useful because we were actually do so much 3. the 3 of us is actually a lot of work on an extended what you know, it's a women are, keeps doing this walk ringing august. these are presented in doing the research to social, that meant women are really, really down to scalable shoes and you do all of this, what can you still hear and everybody did this things over and over again. no, it's not true that we've received the same at equal treatment. you seats over and over again, one limon. good. looking for jobs. you won't see what man and woman i've yet to get was been in federal government either yet people say, well, you have

a month to kill. if you go back, don't worry to so many reasons why we don't get jobs. so many reasons why we're measuring get high paying jobs. why we may do not get promoted. all tied to agenda, and this is the best like the nice people. and they get me to feel like, you know, just the 2nd sense. you're unions go smoking when they vis, or somebody just look to go back and, you know, it's so much confidence, like i know this. so anything you're seeing is not true. you're looking at another nigeria rad come from when many deals can not even go to school. you start from that and the way to say we meant and also what you in a platform to find that we can point to the absolute balance men miss out against each other. and none of that is ever brought to, you know, he showed men. what is always what we meant? we then dos of what we may be less look of socialization on family. we went, i'm not the most socialized to see themselves as lead us. you go downtown books even are english textbooks, length of grade of what he asked to read english dates when i did teaching the daughters, i'm the kitchen leadership is not for women as a child. what was really i was, i told you, make a good 1st lady about, hey,

this does something really. i'd be glad to the touch of spelling that with the most of that in them is school is telling them is how many of them can go beyond the socialization dose of what's, what's speaking like that as subject to so much so many insult you get on the threshold, like with a penalty such that that again, these are men of starting to get even the women and women we, we, then you'll just call me. you will see that this, this is the walk korean, every single time you have to comedy is this mockery upcoming procedure. we do all the walk. if you want to was the website was the what tech i've been doing. you will see all of this the over yet, and one must come from the way you're not walking and need any more data. not just not, it's not true. we met, i'm not mistaken because we don't want to day or we went when i want an unfair advantage and it's not sure this is not right. the correct response to all of this is, what is the data you're walking with,

present it. and they cannot use that and it's shameful. and i, like i said, what is that like to discuss that? like when we can kinda, if i'm a, let me try one more thought because this again, this is very popular. so if we can break down some of the stereotypes, we've done something in this 25 minutes. so applicant says, i think religion and culture are 2 major co puts responsible for this social exclusion in the northern part of my gerry, a women's pace is believed to be in the kitchen and the other room is buttress by a precedent some time ago. india to explain what that meant to go into detail. but religion and culture. is that an excuse a reason something you have to overcome abiola you start with that that, that common thought about why women aren't doing better in politics in nigeria. yes, ma'am. religion as actually played a lot of role in much analyzation of women. well after 3 shuttle where, you know, women are going to contest why lecture and have to do selection. because for

example, in zeria, you look over the election because, sure, what is the context where the terminal that look goldman and it felt that she cannot be the chair because i renewed you, you know, she kind of need who auto us also being in major challenge and which the, which patrick has used to talk with and the, i'm, you know, trying to remain on the basis. but the 2nd class citizens. and there are rules that women, you know, cannot play. and of course, with religion and cultural, we know it's a long, is a long johnny, you know, it's long, but just wanted to do with a specious spot where we are walking with traditional rulers. we're working with really just lead us. we're also deconstructing the text dest, you know, off our religions, you know, where people also reduce it, also to bet on atlantic, if they are that huge, you know, in the project you free what, but, well, there are also a lot of pushback that we'll see the recent info is guess is really interesting

that on, on twitter, on social media, i've got a lot of men talking and then when we reached out to women, we then got some really interesting comments like this one from irene. and i gotcha . and have a listen. we're looking at strategies now, how do you go forward from here? i think the biggest challenge is to improve women's rights and representation in law. julia are the says 10 make the embedded gender bias and cultural and social norms that stifle women's ability to access opportunities. be the economic or political and again, if we have a patriarchy, what i called the biggest elephant in the room, we need to rethink our current strategy and women's rights representation in nigeria. we've played, for example, 1st lady advocacy for decades and has gotten us less than 5 percent representation

in the national assembly. we knew that instead of acting like supplicants, we need to meet demands because power concedes nothing without demands strategies in they help us. i think again, aggressive approach is really important right now if you can go at that classroom level, one of the things i want to, i think a statement that i always want to be out there and i want to before is cultural is now culture, mostly subject to the necessity. so now we can keep depending on our culture 50 years ago, was like we're just going to keep doing like this. and i think our central message that, that's, and i just understanding this that's all the time. because right now, all country, he says good us old in on that the weight of the quality control take life of the qualities that we went on. the surgeons, if it's theresa and all of these other things, increasing the country right now. so i want to show up with you from that i'm going to write this is the new york now, and this is still no means that we make sure you saw equality should be at the walk

on the charts. that is how you're going to message to go up. thank you. i spoke cody and only spoke earlier to us to give us some practical advice. so she, she knows the landscape, the political landscape. she knows that battles are being fought. and then she said, ok, this is what we need to do next. have a listen, have look more then just go to men to emphasis. we need women who are full thinking, women will feminist women's, understand the importance of equality, then we will send me a was in go into action by sponsoring and donated women campaign and to fulton, the employees to go in that intake of space because there's much more important to, you know, just to run this is just more important through wage. china is not in articulate that note for the last for fresh air to try and look ahead. to be honest,

i completely agree with putting money behind women. and this is one of the big failures of one of the agenda bills i was thrown out with women are going to be on the ballot. we need women in positions of authority within the political parties. and one of the gender bills was asking for 35 percent estimation for women in leadership positions within the political parties. so yes, i completely agree with what we're saying. we need to put money behind women. we need to ensure that when women out the by look at the win and we need to ensure that we hold, but it is accountable when they substitute women, we're going into an election cycle now. and women are going to win primaries. but what's going to happen between when the primaries are one and when the elections really come around, it'll be substituted. we've seen this happen in 2015. i've seen this happen in 2019 . we've seen new mental to step down that it's not the time of getting pre once. so now we want, we meant to when i'm going to work behind, we're going to work towards that child. thank you for sharing your movement with us and indie and abiola. thank you for your questions, your comments on the chief and on twitter as well. i see you next time. take

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