Start an Activist Book Club (Virtually)
Staying safe at home due to the COVID19 pandemic and looking for activities to pass the time? Grab your friends and start an activist book club!
Women's Consortium of Nigeria
http://www.womenconsortiumofnigeria.org/Mission
Women’ Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON) shall be non-political and none-profit making Association, committed to the enhancement of the status of women and related feminist goals and ideals.
A non-governmental, non-partisan and non-religious Organisation committed to the enforcement of Women and children’s Rights and the attainment of equality, development and peace.
- Contact Information:
- No. 13, Okesuna Street, Off Igbosere Road,
- Lagos,
- Nigeria
- Active In: Nigeria
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness, Aftercare, Empowerment
- Forms of Slavery:
- Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor
- Tel: (+234)-1- 2635300
- Email: wocon95@yahoo.com
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