Source: Champion
No fewer than 150,000 women in the South East have benefited from the campaign launched by an NGO, Umu Ada Igbo, to sensitise women on reproductive health and reproductive rights.
The group is an apex body of Igbo women drawn from Abia, Anambra, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Rivers.
It also derives its membership from Igbo women living in other states of Nigeria and abroad.
Mrs Kate Chibuzor, National Secretary of the group, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ovim, Abia that the group embarked on the campaign to eradicate harmful traditional practices against women and the girl-child.
She said that the campaign was sponsored by Ipas, an international NGO promoting reproductive health and reproductive rights.
She said that the women were involved due to the increasing incidence of teenage pregnancies, defilement and other abuses against women in the zone.
''We have restated that henceforth, any man caught defiling any girl in the towns where we operate will face the music.
''Ipas, in collaboration with Umuada Igbo Nigeria, will hand over for prosecution, the accused and follow the case to its logical conclusion,'' she said.
She called no more women in the area to embrace family planning practices to reduce incidences of maternal and child mortality.