TEENS TRIED FOR WEARING TROUSERS IN SUDAN SIHA STATEMENT 18 FEBRUARY 2015 In Sudan, women and girls continue to suffer under discriminatory laws,under so-called ‘Public Order Articles’ contained in the 1991 Sudanese Criminal Act by which they are arrested based on loose interpretations of the laws, subjected to summary trials and lashed. On Wednesday 11 …
SIHA STATEMENT UGANDA: GANG-RAPE VICTIM FROM NAKABAALE VILLAGE DIES 12 FEBRUARY 2015 Lydia Nakawala, a 14-year-old from Nakabaale village in Waibuga Sub-County died on Sunday the 08 February 2015 as a result of injuries suffered during a gang rape which has occurred earlier the same day. Nakawala was a student in primary six at Waibuga …
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SIHA STATEMENT 06 FEBRUARY 2014 MOGADISHU: URGENT ACTION NEEDED FOR SOMALI WOMAN DENIED JUSTICE IN COURT AND SUBJECTED TO RAPE AT THE HANDS OF SOMALI POLICE SIHA has been informed recently of the case of Nuurto Yousuf Omar, a 29-year old mother of six who was subjected to rape on a daily basis during a …
6 February 2015 In 2011, following a meeting of SIHA members in Addis Ababa, women from the Horn of Africa who attended the meeting celebrated in a restaurant in Addis Ababa, singing and dancing and exercising freedom often denied in their home countries. The Horn of Africa countries are becoming increasingly suffocating to women as political …
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