Often it is other women who themselves are forcing the continuance of these practices. Men are not submitted to these traditions when they lose their spouses. Women's rights are human rights. Woman's first dignity comes from her being a human being. Let them liberate the society.
Cultures are dynamic and remain vibrant only when they adjust and adapt to changing times.
We are now in a new millennium. Let us not miss this opportunity to change for the sake of a more progressive society. We, a gathering of Christian Churchwomen including the Superiors of Catholic Sisters, have been appalled at learning how many Nigerian women have become involved in the sex slavery in Europe. These young women, some of them recruited when they were only eleven years old, have been lured from Nigerian schools and countryside under the false pretexts of glowing promises of well-paid jobs, further education and financial security for themselves and their families. Only on arrival in Europe do they discover they have in fact been 'sold into slavery'.