Uganda set to Pass Harsh NGO Bill
A new NGO bill that was first presented to the Parliament of Uganda in April 2015 is sparking controversy, as it would curtail the ability of NGOs to carry out […]
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Meriam’s courage: facing death by hanging
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
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Rape and War in South Sudan
“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
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Let’s not be hoodwinked into hudud
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
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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
Pregnant Sudanese Woman Faces Public Flogging and Execution If Convicted of Apostasy and Adultery in Khartoum Court
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
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
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
Tribute to Osman Hummaida, Sudanese Human Rights Defender
22nd April 2014 Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) joins the human rights community in the mourning of the loss and celebrating the life of Osman
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First Women’s Cooperative Union Formed in Sudan; a Much Needed Effort
20th March 2014 18th March 2014 was a historic moment for the poor women working in the informal sector in Sudan as they received a hard-earned permit to form the
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