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 […]
Meriam’s courage: facing death by hanging Read More »
“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
Rape and War in South Sudan Read More »
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
Let’s not be hoodwinked into hudud Read More »
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
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
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
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
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
Tribute to Osman Hummaida, Sudanese Human Rights Defender Read More »
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
First Women’s Cooperative Union Formed in Sudan; a Much Needed Effort Read More »
20th February 2014 The progress of the trial whereby an Ethiopian woman and a number of Sudanese men have been prosecuted for a range of crimes, inclusive of adultery, indecent acts
Clarifications: Gang Rape of Ethiopian Woman in Sudan Read More »
