Women Cannot Progress Without Access To Information, Group Tells Governments

Women Cannot Progress Without Access To Information, Group Tells Governments

The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) on Sunday called on Federal and State Governments to address challenges within the country’s information ecosystem that hinder women’s access to public information, warning that meaningful progress for women cannot be achieved while bureaucratic secrecy and other barriers continue to limit their right to information. In a statement signed by Idowu Adewale the Communications Officer of MRA, to mark this year’s Intern…

MRA Calls for Protection of Women’s Access to Information in Hostile Digital Age

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has urgently called on the Federal and State Governments to implement measures that safeguard women’s access to information amid growing digital threats that increasingly silence female voices and limit their rights in Nigeria. MRA also urged the government to take measures to address […]

IWD 2026: Media Rights Agenda calls for gender- responsive information systems

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called on Federal and State Governments to take measures to address various challenges in the information ecosystem, which impede access to information and the full enjoyment of the right to information by women in Nigeria, arguing that no meaningful progress can be achieved for Nigerian women while the gates to public information remain locked against them by bureaucratic secrecy and other barriers. In a statemen…