ABSTRACT
Nigeria is a diverse country and as such open to several religions which often conflict with the enjoyment of the rights of women and girls. The diversity of the country often creates unnecessary religious and ethnic tensions which can pose a threat to full enjoyment of women rights. Research has shown how that patriarchal transnational religious network impacts the confines and latitudes of women’s rights at the global level. The influence of this international alliance is often reflected in the framing of human rights texts in a manner that limits full expression of women’s rights. Raday has shown that culture and religion have contributed immensely to defining women’s identity, since gender identity often results from the norms of behavior imposed on men and women by culture and religion; noting that the story of gender in traditionalist cultures and religions is that of the systematic domination of women by men, and of their subjection to patriarchal power within the family.
