December, 2018

NEWS: Wau peer educators engage local youth and traditional leaders to end sexual violence and harmful cultural practices in Wau State

With support from the Norwegian Church Aid, SIHA is working to strengthen GBV prevention, response and risk mitigation in Wau, South Sudan. The project intends to address cross-cutting issues in addition to engaging various community stakeholders, including men and boys and institutions (schools, local government, etc.) at all levels in an effort to transform attitudes …

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FEATURED ARTICLE: The dangers of NGO-isation of women’s rights in Africa

News / By siha

First Published on Aljazeera at https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/dangers-ngo-isation-women-rights-africa-181212102656547.html Authored By: Hala Alkarib Photo Credit: Siegfried Modola/Reuters NGOs agendas in Africa depoliticize women’s rights and sideline and weaken grassroot African activism. The emancipation of women is one of the most significant aspects of social and cultural transformation around the world. Women are gradually moving to occupy more space in …

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16 days of Activism 2018: Taking it Further – #HearMeToo

Her Voice, News, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda / By siha

#HearMeToo This year, SIHA Network leveraged on the 16 days of activism as an opportune period to bring the #MeToo conversation to the light – attempting to understand how the gender power imbalance creates opportunities for men to prey on women and girls; promotes a society that ridicules the victims; allows the perpetrators to go …

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Breaking the Silence: Sexual harassment in the workplace – Sudan

Documentary Launch, News, Sudan / By siha

#HearMeToo This year, for the annual #16DaysofActivism Against Gender-Based Violence, SIHA will launch a documentary focusing on workplace harassment in Sudan. Gender based violence is an ongoing issue in Sudan that is among SIHA’s strategic areas. SIHAs work has focused particularly on sexual and gender based violence in post conflict settings and in the criminal …

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GENDER ALERT : Carping at sexual violence in Somalia

News, SIHA Gender Alert, Somalia / By siha

#HearMeToo Somalia has endured a protracted conflict for over twenty years with numerous competing forces seeking control territory and in the process placing the lives of ordinary civilians at risk of violence, starvation, forced marriage, rape and subsequent death. The escalation of conflict has created a precarious security environment with an absence of functioning accountability …

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#16DaysofActivism: SIHA distributes dignity kits to school girls in Wau, South Sudan

News, Press Release, South Sudan / By siha

#HearMeToo In commemoration of this year’s ’16 Days of Activism’, with support from the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), SIHA Network assembled and distributed 200 hygiene kits to 200 girls from John Paul II Secondary School, Sunday Secondary School, and Wau High Secondary School. The event was well attended with two Director Generals from the state …

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#16DAYSOFACTIVISM- Hala Alkarib

Her Voice, Uganda / By siha

Introduce yourself (Name, organization, and how long you have been involved in activism) Hala Alkarib, an activist and feminist, civil society worker and research practitioner. I am a mother, daughter, sister, and friend. I was born and raised in Sudan and later lived in Canada, Egypt, and Kenya; currently, I’m living and working in Uganda. I have …

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PRESS STATEMENT: “THERE IS NOTHING FOR US WITHOUT US”

News, Press Release / By siha

“The human rights of women in the informal economies in the Horn of Africa” Grassroots women’s rights organizations, under the umbrella of SIHA Network, came together in a ‘Regional consultation on the social and economic rights of women in the informal economy in the Horn of Africa.’ The consultative meeting took place from the …

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#16DAYSOFACTIVISM: Lyn Ossome

Her Voice, Uganda / By siha

1. Introduce yourself (Name, organization, and how long you have been involved in activism) My name is Lyn Ossome and I am a researcher and senior faculty at Makerere University, Kampala. My activist work around women’s rights spans nearly two decades and has taken the form of organizational work and teaching. Nothing I have written …

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#I6DAYSOFACTIVISM: Fadwo Hassan Jimale

Her Voice, Somalia / By siha

1. Introduce yourself (Name, organization, and how long you have been involved in activism) My Name is Fadwo Hassan Jimale, I work for HINNA organization as Protection coordinator, Gender and GBV Activism and also I’m the Chair Lady of Women and Child Cluster (WCC). I have been working in activism for the past 7 years. …

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December 2018

NEWS: Wau peer educators engage local youth and traditional leaders to end sexual violence and harmful cultural practices in Wau State

FEATURED ARTICLE: The dangers of NGO-isation of women’s rights in Africa

16 days of Activism 2018: Taking it Further – #HearMeToo

Breaking the Silence: Sexual harassment in the workplace – Sudan

GENDER ALERT : Carping at sexual violence in Somalia

#16DaysofActivism: SIHA distributes dignity kits to school girls in Wau, South Sudan

#16DAYSOFACTIVISM- Hala Alkarib

PRESS STATEMENT: “THERE IS NOTHING FOR US WITHOUT US”

#16DAYSOFACTIVISM: Lyn Ossome

#I6DAYSOFACTIVISM: Fadwo Hassan Jimale

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