Looking around at the impact of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) on ourselves, our work and the communities we work with, the reality is more than sobering. In the face of this crisis, governments across the region have left many of us completely exposed. Most women from the greater Horn of Africa region, have never enjoyed the benefits of quality, affordable healthcare, welfare, or safety net mechanisms, rather we struggle daily just to keep our heads above water under ruling regimes who couldn’t be bothered to throw us a rope.
Addressing women’s subordination and violence against women and girls in the Horn of Africa.
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SIHA
Established in 1995 by a coalition of women’s rights activists with the aim of strengthening the capacities of women’s rights organizations and addressing women’s subordination and violence against women and girls in the Horn of Africa, SIHA has grown substantially and is now comprised of 136 member organizations. SIHA operates and advocates within the following 5 key strategic themes of focus:
Challenging violence against women and girls
Challenging violence against women and girls
Especially in sexual exploitation in conflict & post-conflict situations.
Building inclusive women’s movements
Building inclusive women’s movements
Strengthening women’s access to justice
Strengthening women’s access to justice
Empowering women economically
Empowering women economically
Towards the realization of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) in the informal sector.
Mixed migration of women and girls in the Horn of Africa
Mixed migration of women and girls in the Horn of Africa
Protection of women and girls who work abroad. in the Horn of Africa
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Violence against Women and Girls in the Greater Horn of Africa during COVID
There is an attitude that VAWG is unimportant in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. This briefing paper endeavors to highlight just how untrue and unjust that attitude is. The disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on women and girls in the Greater Horn of Africa stems from structural and systemic inequalities that existed before the pandemic. Closely following the social, political, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, SIHA staff in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda have observed an increased prevalence of VAWG.
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