Author(s): Magaji Chiroma , Mohammed Idris

In 2021 Journal VoL. 6

By UNIMAID JICOL

ABSTARCTIt is an established fact that women are the most vulnerableand severely targeted group during and after armedconflicts. Frequently, they are faced with different forms ofhuman rights violations including Gender Based Violence(GBV) or better put as Violence Against Women (VAW).In most cases such violence if committed during armedconflicts will constitute different levels of grave breachesof international humanitarian and human rights laws.Although, GBV/VAW, apart from being a violation ofhuman rights, can equally be considered as a threat to peaceand eventually amounts to inequality and injustice. To thiseffect, several attempts, including setting up legalmechanisms have been made by the international, regionaland national bodies to tackle the menace but to no avail. Anumber of treaties and resolutions intended specifically toprevent these violations with a view to bringingperpetrators to book have been severally adopted by manystakeholders including penal repression and provision ofadequate compensation. To this effect therefore, this article  is aimed at unravelling this lingering problem bedevillingprotection against GBV through the law with a view toproviding pragmatic and realistic measures. However, ithas been identified that apart from the legal mechanismsput in place, other measures too are significant andnecessary. In fact, they always play more significant roletowards effective protection against GBV during and afterarmed conflicts than the strict legal measures; as such, thedemands for injecting moral values in people through civiceducation is considered as necessary.