SIHA congratulates Kaltun S. Hassan on her recent appointment as Chairwoman of the National Election Commission in Somaliland The SIHA Network team, board and advisors are all proud of the appointment of Kaltun S. Hassan as the Chairwoman of the National Election Commission in Somaliland. Kaltun was previously one of SIHA’s staff, a Board member …
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 …
Playing to the Gallery or a Commitment to Equality, Inclusion, and Reconciliation? Introduction On the 29th of December 2021, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia’s House of Peoples’ Representatives approved the establishment of the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission. The Bill setting up the Commission states that the commission is meant to “pave the way for …
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 …
Women human rights defenders from Somalia and Ethiopia awarded for their astounding work Read More »
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 …
We, the women market vendors of Arua City represented through cooperatives and associations for a long time, have been invisible despite the challenges we face within and outside the markets. Even though women constitute a greater percentage of market vendors with an estimate of over 70% being at the forefront of informal cross border trade …
STATEMENT: Women Market Vendors in Arua voice their demands Read More »
On August 15th 2021 Sudanese artist, Fatim Ibrahim Hassan (also known as “Marwa Al-Dowaliya”) was physically assaulted and sexually harassed, according to her alleged statement to SIHA on August 19/2021, by 13 policemen from “Sharg Al Nile Police station” of the “Community Security division”, which has been known since the Al-Bashir regime as the Sudan …
On July 31st, Africa celebrates the 59th Pan African Women’s Day, which was established to recognize and affirm the role of women organizing for the political freedom of Africa and advancing the social and economic status of women on the continent. In the words of the AU Commission Chairperson, “Pan African Women’s Day is a …
The late Hamdi Mohamed Farah was a student who was murdered in September 2020. She was invited to the site of the crime by a man who, according to local media reports, she thought to be her friend. Upon reaching the site, a group of assailants brutally gangraped Hamdi and pushed her off a six-floor …
#JUSTICEFORHAMDI – Decision Reached by the Court Read More »
