Junaid, Adebayo, Olodo for 2nd ITREALMS-DigitalSENSE webinar series

The speakers for the second edition of the ITREALMS digital rights webinar series in collaboration with DigitalSENSE Africa, DNS Women-Nigeria and NaijaAgroNet, has been confirmed, with the theme: “Women and Rights in Digital Era.”

The trio are an author cum activist and social entrepreneur, Morenike Adebayo; a United Kingdom-based developmental actor, Abimbola Junaid; and security analyst and President, Africa Security Forum, Temitope Olodo.

According to the Executive Director, Operations at DigitalSENSE Africa, Nkem Nweke, the speakers in confirming attendance expressed readiness to address their respective sub-themes judiciously.

Nweke also said the rate of recent rape of women and girls in the country cannot be overemphasised, decrying the situation in Nigeria, especially for the fact that some of the victims started off on social media like Facebook before ending up in rape and death.

Adebayo who would speak to the topic: “Nigerian Youth, Women and Rights in Digital Era.”

Junaid will treat: “Role of CSOs in safeguarding Women and Rights in Digital Era.”

The same topic will be treated by Olodo.

Nweke noted that Adebayo, who is the author of: “52 Thoughts on Nigerian Politics,” activist and social entrepreneur, is a graduate of Politics and International Relations from the University of Bath, United Kingdom.

This webinar, slated for June 13, 2020 at 11am, is the second in the Digital Rights series hosted by ITREALMS, an international award-winning news platform, in collaboration with DigitalSENSE Africa Media, an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) accredited At-Large Structure (ALS), Domain Name System [DNS] Women (Nigeria) and NaijaAgroNet, a publication focusing on Sustainable Development, women, environment and new energy.

In February 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to the initial Digital Rights and Freedom Bill after it was passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate at the 8th National Assembly respectively.

The Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goal stipulates that to “End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere; Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation; Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.”

Equally, Goal 5 is to: “Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic and public life. Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, as well as undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, to name a few.”