May, 2014 - SIHA

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 shackles in Omdurman Women’s Prison in Khartoum, gave birth last night to a baby girl. As Meriam has just given birth, the situation has become …

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Meriam’s courage: facing death by hanging

News, Sudan / By siha

Meriam Ibrahim Yahya is incarcerated and shackled in Sudan’s Omdurman Women’s Prison. Her twenty month old child is with her, and she is pregnant with her second child. Charged with apostasy earlier this month, she faces flogging and then death by hanging. ‘Meriam’s courage’ is the title of a story that was told in Sudan …

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Rape and War in South Sudan

News, South Sudan / By siha

“It’s like nothing before,” one woman who saw her sister-in-law gang raped told us. She is just one of many women who have said they had been raped – or witnessed rape – as they fled an area of South Sudan where government forces and their proxy Darfuri rebel group had burned and pillaged villages …

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Let’s not be hoodwinked into hudud

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Zainah Anwar SINCE PAS in Kelantan passed its version of hudud law in 1993, and in Terengganu in 2002, there have been endless debates on this issue, dividing Muslims, political parties and coalitions, and causing much dread and trepidation among most right-minded citizens of Malaysia about the future of the country. The only difference between …

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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

News, Sudan / By siha

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 women charged with apostasy and adultery, was given a sentence today of 100 lashings and execution by hanging at the Haj Yousif Court Complex in …

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Pregnant Sudanese Woman Faces Public Flogging and Execution If Convicted of Apostasy and Adultery in Khartoum Court

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SIHA STATEMENT – 08 MAY 2014 – Sudan: Meriam Ibrahim, a 27-year-old Sudanese woman currently pregnant with her second child, is facing punishments of public flogging and execution if found guilty on baseless charges of apostasy and adultery in an upcoming hearing to be convened by Sudan’s Criminal Court at the Haj Yousif court complex …

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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

News, Somalia / By siha

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 murdered by suspected al-Shabaab gunmen less than one kilometer away from her family home in Mogadishu.. The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of …

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

News, Uganda / By siha

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 Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, Uganda Health and Science Press Association and Human Rights Network for Journalist Uganda, today filed a petition in Constitutional …

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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

Meriam’s courage: facing death by hanging

Rape and War in South Sudan

Let’s not be hoodwinked into hudud

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

Pregnant Sudanese Woman Faces Public Flogging and Execution If Convicted of Apostasy and Adultery in Khartoum Court

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

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

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