By Olayemi John-Mensah In commemorating the 2017 United Nations International Widows’ Day (IWD), the Women Federation for World Peace (WFWP), Nigeria, has recommended that programmes and policies be put in place to end violence against widows and their children. Celebrating the 2017 Widows’ Day on Friday in Abuja with some women from various communities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the National President of WFWP, Gbemisola Olorunfunmi, said the day was set aside to commemorate with women who lost their husbands. “We recommend that poverty alleviation, education and other support services to widows of all ages be undertaken, including the context of the action plan to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals,” she said. Olorunfunmi said they discovered that women suffer a lot when they lost their husbands in this part of the world, stressing that some cultures and traditional practices were not favourable to women. “Family members…