Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) is a non profit civil rights ganization established in the year 2000. To promote respect for human rights, gender equality, equity, rule of law, accountability and social justice in Nigeria.

Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC) is a women’s rights organization in Nigeria, which provides pro bono legal services for women’s victims of gender-based violence and other women’s rights abuse. WARDC since inception has prosecuted over 450 cases in court, instituted four class actions and received an average of six women every week, for legal and socio counseling on matters of gender-based violence and other civil matters that affect women. It has also established 42 paralegal communities across Nigeria.

WARDC has developed over the years, working to reassert pro-people budget and women emancipation at all levels of the society, protecting rights and promoting equity in gender relations through Advocacy, Reporting, Impact Litigation, Research and Documentation.

WARDC works with a variety of stakeholders which include policymakers, grass root women, traditional rulers, religious leaders, market women and men, politicians, professionals, national and regional government institutions, private sectors, local and international development partners to achieve its aims and objectives.