Somalia

🚨 Gender Alert -The Case of Fahima and Farah Mohamoud: Perverse Sexual Violence in Somalia as a Crisis of Impunity and Silence

On June 13, 2025, in the town of Lascanood located near the contested border between Somalia and Somaliland, two young sisters, Fahima Yasiin Mohamoud (16 years old) and Farah Yasiin Mohamoud (17 years old) , were brutally beaten and gang-raped by twenty-five (25) men aged between 17 and 20 years old.

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PRESS STATEMENT: Women’s Rights Organizations (WROs) Call for Equitable and Inclusive Representation in the Formation of Somalia’s Human Rights Commission

We acknowledge and commend the government for initiating the long-overdue process of establishing a Human Rights Commission, an essential constitutional obligation and a key demand of civil society actors across the country for over a decade.
While this step is welcome and reflects the

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Statement by the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA Network) on Somalia – (no. OBS/433)

Your Excellency, Honourable Commissioner Janet Ramatoulie Sallah-Njie, 
The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) is a regional feminist network with over 200 member organizations working across South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, and the Somali region. We welcome this opportunity to address the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) this session. 
We note with concern that Somalia remains one of the most perilous countries for women and girls, with gender-based violence (GBV)

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Press Statement: Gezira State and the Forgotten Atrocities: A Report on Conflict-related Sexual Violence

SIHA Network has released a report underscores the dire circumstances faced by Sudanese women and girls amid the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis in Sudan. The report focuses on the deliberate use of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) in Gezira State.

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Gender Alert: Women’s Rights Organizations Condemn Escalating Femicides in Somalia and Somaliland

We, the undersigned coalition of women’s rights organizations, women’s rights activists, and women human rights defenders in the Somali region, express our deep sadness and grave concern over the alarming increase of femicides across the Somali territories. The recent incidents in Hargeisa and Mogadishu, where three men brutally murdered their wives, with two of them killed by knives and one burned alive, shocked our collective conscience.

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Women Peace Builders in Somalia: Inspiring Stories of Courage and Resilience

Somalia has long been plagued by conflict, instability, and suffering. Years of civil war, extremist violence, and political unrest have taken a toll on the nation, resulting in displacement, poverty, and unimaginable hardships. In the midst of these crises, women and girls bear the brunt of the burden, facing increased violence, discrimination, and exploitation. …

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