Khartoum, 14 September 2022 Your Excellency, We, the undersigned, are writing to shed light on the consistent criminalization and persecution of women under Sudanese laws. Women in Sudan are under constant threat of imprisonment and face systemic violence in their daily lives as workers, students, female children, mothers, and grandmothers. We call for immediate action …
Women’s political participation in the Greater Horn of Africa is at a dangerous impasse We as the women’s rights activists of the We Cannot Wait Consortium are in mourning after the loss of MP Amina Mohamed Abdi who was killed along with 47 others in a suicide bomb attack in Beledweyn. Amina was a member …
25 years of resilience, courage, and commitment to achieving gender equality in the Greater Horn of Africa When SIHA was brought to life by a group of women from across the region, in the mid-1990s it was a bright moment for women activists in the Horn of Africa. They saw in SIHA hope for a …
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SUPPORT SIHA’S WORK ACROSS THE REGION Fadwo Hassan Jimale, a women rights activist working with the Somali Women and Child Care Association in Somalia and Teyiba Yassin of the Yitawek Timret Coalition in Ethiopia scooped the SIHA Women Human Rights Defenders’ Awards – 2021. They were both awarded at colourful ceremonies in their respective countries for their demonstration of …
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The foundations of systemic discrimination that were laid long before Sudan’s independence in 1956, continue to be visible within the institutions and structures of the Sudanese state today. Its geographical location on the border of the African Savanah paved the way for Sudan’s history of involvement in the slave trade, which has largely contributed to an inherited ethnic and cultural pluralisation among the population inhabiting Sudan.
We, as African Women Activists with our regional and global partners, write this statement in a rapidly changing context as the conflict that started in the Tigray region in November 2020 expands to the Amhara and Afar regions, and threatens the stability of Ethiopia and the wider Horn of Africa region. We stand in solidarity …
Image posted by Sudanese Journalist, Dalia Eltahir 22 November, 2021 On the 25th of October factions of the Sudanese military initiated a coup against the transitional government. The people of Sudan have peacefully declared their opposition to the illegitimate coup, by taking to the streets en masse in different parts of Sudan. This peaceful opposition has been …
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Photography Credit: Duha Mohammed 15 November, 2021 Written by SIHA Regional Director, Hala alKarib There is nothing more difficult than losing a child. There is nothing worse than losing our children as a result of treachery, ignorance, crime and short-sightedness, and this is what is happening in Sudan now. Dozens of young women and men …
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