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Together with SIHA, GRC is Calling for a Gendered Approach to Enforced Disappearances

The enforced disappearance of women and girls is one of the most grievous forms of gender-based violence, particularly in conflict-affected areas, and it must be recognised as such in order to ensure access to justice and adequate redress, currently unavailable to thousands of survivors and their families around the

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Joint Statement: It’s Not Too Late－Women Call for a Seat in SSC-Khatumo’s Future

News, Press Release, Statement / SIHA

The long-awaited SSC-Khatumo Governance Conference officially commenced on July 6, 2025, in Las’ Anod, marking a significant moment for the future of governance in this region and its border areas. Spearheaded by clan elders and political leaders, with strong backing from the Federal Government of Somalia, the Conference aims to establish a functioning and representative administration for the SSC-Khatumo State.

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

News, Press Release, Somalia, Somalia, Statement / SIHA

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

News, Press Release, Somalia, Somalia, Statement / SIHA

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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PRESS STATEMENT: Current Update on Atrocities at Zamzam Displacement Camp, North Darfur

News, Press Release, Statement, Sudan, Sudan / SIHA

Since April 12, 2025, the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) Network has closely followed the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) brutal attack on Zamzam Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp, North Darfur. SIHA has issued two statements on the situation, highlighting

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

Ethiopia, Ethiopia, News, Statement / SIHA

Your Excellency, Honourable Commissioner Mudford Zachariah Mwandenga, 
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 wish to bring to your attention the deeply worrying situation of women and girls in Ethiopia.

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

News, Somalia, Somalia, Statement / SIHA

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

News, South Sudan, South Sudan, Statement / SIHA

Your Excellency, Honorable Commissioner Solomon Ayele Dersso, 
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 our deepest concern at the worsening situation of women and girls in South Sudan, a country that continues

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

News, Statement, Sudan, Sudan / SIHA

Your Excellency, Honourable Commissioner Hatem Essaiem, 

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.

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83rd ORDINARY SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS BANJUL, THE GAMBIA

News, Statement / SIHA

We welcome this opportunity to engage with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on the current context across the Horn of Africa (HoA) and the rights of women and girls in the region during its 83rd Ordinary Session. Founded in 1995, the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) is an indigenous feminist network comprising more than 200 civil society organizations dedicated to advancing gender justice across Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and the Somali Region.

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Together with SIHA, GRC is Calling for a Gendered Approach to Enforced Disappearances

Joint Statement: It’s Not Too Late－Women Call for a Seat in SSC-Khatumo’s Future

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

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

PRESS STATEMENT: Current Update on Atrocities at Zamzam Displacement Camp, North Darfur

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

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

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

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

83rd ORDINARY SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS BANJUL, THE GAMBIA

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