May 2014

Meriam Ibrahim Gives Birth in Omdurman Women’s Prison in Khartoum: Incarcerated Family of Three Denied Medical Care By Prison Authorities Despite Sudanese International and Constitutional Obligations

SIHA STATEMENT, 27 MAY 2014 Sentenced on 15 May 2014 to one-hundred public lashings and execution by hanging on baseless charges of adultery and apostasy, Meriam Ibrahim, who remains in …

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Urgent Action Needed: Innocent Sudanese Mother Will Face Public Flogging and Execution, SIHA Condemns Today’s Ruling in Haj Yousif Court in Khartoum

SIHA STATEMENT, 15 MAY 2014, KHARTOUM: In a shocking decision that the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) strongly condemns, Meriam Ibrahim, the 27-year-old pregnant Sudanese …

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Somali Humanitarian Worker Nafisa Osman Salad Murdered in Mogadishu: Somalia Security Vacuum Continues to Threaten Humanitarians, Human Rights Defenders and the General Population

SIHA STATEMENT – 07 May 2014 – Somalia: Nafisa Osman Salad, a humanitarian worker in her early twenties about to begin employment at Digfer Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia was recently …

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Anti-Pornography Act – Human Rights Activists and Civil Society Organisations Challenge the Legality of the Act in Constitutional Court – Uganda

A group of individuals and organisations, including the Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention, Women’s Organisation Network for Human Rights Advocacy, Prof. Sylvia Tamale, Ms. Sarah Kihika, Ms. Lilian Drabo, Strategic …

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