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#JUSTICEFORHAMDI – Decision Reached by the Court
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…
Enough with Legitimizing Sexual Violence – Appalling Video of Gang rape on Sudanese social media
Sudan 10th May A shameful and appalling video showed at least four men forcefully gang raping a woman surfaced on social media on Wednesday 5 May 2021. The video reveals…
SIHA WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AWARDS – 2021
INTRODUCTION Despite challenging socio-political environments across the Horn of Africa, women human rights defenders continue to engage in significant change and transformation in the field of women’s rights, gender equality…
GENDER ALERT– Another Gendered Killing within One Month in Sudan
Sudan 3rd May For the second time in one month,1 a girl in Sudan has been killed by an immediate family member. On April 3, 2021, Aida Al-Mahdi, 19 years…
STATEMENT BY SIHA NETWORK TO THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS
16 April 2021 (Read before the 68th Ordinary Session of the Commission on 14 April 2021) Honorable Chairperson, Commissioners, the Secretary of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights…
GENDER ALERT– Violent Backlash Against Peaceful Women Protestors in Khartoum Today
There have been attacks on women peacefully protesting in Khartoum during the #SudanWomenProtest march from the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of the Interior and Office of the Attorney…
CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT: The Sudanese Transitional Government has Blood on its Hands: The Pattern of Violence against Women and Girls Continues
Photography Credit: Ibrahim Saehon Arabic Translation Included Below Khartoum March 30/2021 In Sudan, militant Islamists are still running the same old game to intimidate the Sudanese people, especially women and…
JOINT STATEMENT: THE SEXUAL OFFENCES BILL MUST BE URGENTLY REVIVED
The Somaliland National Human Rights Commission recently published the 2020 Annual report which sheds light on the human rights situation in addition to the activities of the Commission in 2020.…
Breaking Gender Stereotypes: Research Paper Statement
Photography: Ahmad Mahmoud Today SIHA launches its latest publication entitled Negotiating Space: Sudanese Women’s Access to Vocational Education & Employment. Drawing on SIHA’s Breaking Gender Stereotypes Phase II project, the…
STATEMENT: Civil society organizations in Ethiopia call for urgent humanitarian assistance, redress and prosecution for the protection of human rights, and searching for a durable conflict resolution in areas affected by repeated attacks of various motivations January 2021
January 2021 The ongoing conflicts, instability and the lack of peace observed in the different regions in Ethiopia have resulted in the displacement of multitudes of women and men, including…