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Impact of Legal Awareness and Empowerment Programs on the Ability of Women and Girls to Claim Their Rights in Nigeria

In Nigeria, abuse of the pursuit of justice among women and girls is chronic in nature, which is manifested by discriminatory laws, cultural policies, and illiteracy about laws, geographical and economic constraints, and lack of access to services by marginalized groups of rural women, out of school young people, young mothers and young people with disabilities. Interventions based on legal empowerment such as peer paralegals, legal clinic, legal hotlines, and online platforms have been used to overcome these difficulties; however, the effectiveness of these interventions in various settings h…