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KIND’S WORK IN 2017

Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) is a non-governmental organization founded by Hafsat Abiola-Costello in 1997. KIND was launched in the USA, in January 1998, where it joined other organizations in the Nigerian pro-democracy movement to end military rule in Nigeria. Following the end of military rule in May 1999, the organization was launched in Nigeria.

Our mission is to empower democracy and development in Africa by strengthening organizations and creating initiatives dedicated to the advancement of women, Youths, and Vulnerable People and our vision is an Africa where women are full participants in the continent’s social, economic and political development.

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Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill (GEOB) 2015

The Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matters has set February 19, 2018, as the date for the public hearing of the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill (GEOB) 2015. To view the bill,  please visit this link:  READ MORE
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A press realease from nationalwire.com.ng, “Nigerian Women Must Demand Their Political Power, Rights – Abiola Costello”

 

Founder of Kudirat Initiatives For Democracy (KIND), Hafsat Abiola-Costello has challenged Nigerian women to demand their political power and rights.

Abiola-Costello, daughter of the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola whose wife, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola was also assassinated in Lagos, gave the charge recently at an event organized by her organization in Lagos.

The event themed Consultative Forum on Women Political Participation in Lagos State featured several facilitators and participants from Lagos and beyond.

The activist said Nigerian women are among the strongest in the world and the most relegated on earth. “Women are not really valued in our society, we are almost like slaves. This situation is not going to change until we demand the power and the right that are ours,” she said.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS: CONSULTATIVE FORUM ON WOMEN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN FCT, ABUJA

VOICE PROJECT

 

CONSULTATIVE FORUM ON WOMEN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN FCT, ABUJA

The Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) is organizing a consultative forum to advance the course of women political participation in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The forum is being organized under the Voice Influencing Project of KIND to seek ways of influencing relevant organizations to enable them to strengthen the capacity of women political aspirants and to foster women’s participation in politics in the FCT. Target participants at the forum include representatives of political parties, INEC, female political aspirants from the wards to the LGAs in the FCT, Democracy NGOs, female politicians and political office holders and relevant MDAs. The strategies to be articulated in this forum and subsequent engagements with the stakeholders are expected to lead to an increase in the number of women taking part in active politics and better advocacy by Democracy NGOs for women’s participation in politics.

The forum is scheduled as follows.

Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Venue: Fountain Hall, Rockview Royale Hotel, Abuja

Time: 10 am prompt

 

THEME – EMPOWERING WOMEN FOR BETTER POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN FCT, ABUJA

 

LEAD SPEAKER – Professor A. T. Simbine, National Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abuja