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About WOMEN’s CONSORTIUM OF NIGERIA (WOCON)

Founded and registered by Late Chief Olabisi Olateru-Olagbegi, as an incorporated Trustee on 25th August, 1995 and with headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, Women Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON) is a non governmental, not for profit making, non-partisan and non-religious Organization committed to the enforcement of Women and children’s rights and the attainment of equality, development and peace. WOCON holds a United Nations Special Consultative Status. WOCON’s activities over the years among other things have primarily focused on issues of gender based violence (GBV) especially campaigns against human trafficking of women, youth and children. WOCON pioneered the campaign against human Trafficking in Nigeria on March 8 1997 and in its sustained focus on the elimination of human trafficking, WOCON has taken its awareness campaigns and mobilisation of strategic stakeholders in the source, transit and receiving communities to the rural areas particularly in endemic States of Edo, Ogun, Oyo, Ebonyi, Delta, Akwa Ibom and Lagos States where majority of the victims trafficked within and across borders are sourced, transited and/or received.