ss causes, eliminate trafficking. 5. Armed conflict: increase participation of women at the decision making levels, protect women in armed conflict, promote non-violent forms of conflict resolution, reduce excessive military budgets. 6. Economy: ensure equal access, maximise women's potential . 7. Power and decision-making: increase women's share in decision-making at local, state, and national levels; enforce accountability; collect statistics. 8. Human rights: offer legal advice, establish legal aid clinics, revise legislation, raise awareness through CEDAW workshops. 9. Media: increase women's involvement in media, create gender-sensitive programmes. 10. Environment: facilitate access to information, education and training, promote research, promote potable water 11. The Girl Child: raise minimum age for marriage, create opportunities for education, protect against economic and sexual exploitation etc. (Women watch, 1998)There are obvious and necessary changes that need to be made in Nigeria. Married women who are battered by there husband must have a safe option to leave her husband in a violent relationship. Establishments must be set up to support all women and their after a husbands death, instead of the woman being thrown off the property and left to fend for her children and herself. There has been recent push by lawyers to work for the rights of women in the familly setting. This is one giant leap for womens empowerment in Nigeria. If progress is made which brings about more rights for women in the family setting, this may influence factors relating to womens status in the greater society. Eventually, women of all cultures, classes, ethnicities, and religions in Nigeria may one day view women as equal to men....
