Coalition of Somali Human Rights Defenders (CSHRD) Delegation Advocates for Justice and Accountability at ASP23 (ICC)
Coalition of Somali Human Rights Defenders (CSHRD) Delegation Advocates for Justice and Accountability at ASP23 at the ICC
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Somalia: Galmudug Region of Somalia Outlaws Female Genital Mutilation FGM
Breaking News ! Female genital mutilation FGM is outlawed in Galmudug region of Somalia.
Press Release: Somalia’s El Ali District Indigenous Community Leaders Call for Canada, USA & China to Return their Meteorite
In a press release, El Ali Indigenous leaders make An Urgent International Call for Canada, USA & China to immediately return the multi-million meteorite that was robbed from the Community by Al-shabab militias who overpowered the community that demonstrated some rebellion and resistance to protect the centuries old meteorite found in Eli Ali which was …
Somalia: HANAHR Participates in the Model Guide and Guidelines for the Protection of Women Human Rights Defenders in Africa Validation Meeting 6th September, 2022
In Somalia Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) are exposed to gender-based violence due to the nature of their work, in line with patriarchal norms that perpetuate gendered misconceptions regarding the place of women in society. They experience violence within their own movements and organizations or at the hands of family or the communities which they …
JOINT ALTERNATIVE REPORT – Somalia: Patterns of unlawful killings, torture and other ill-treatment
Submitted in application to Article 19 of the UN Committee Against Torture and Cruel Inhumane and Degrading Treatment 75th Session of the Convention Against Torture. CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS PRESENTING THE REPORT Submitted by: The Coalition of Somali Human Rights Defenders CSHRDs The Coalition of Somalia Human Rights Defenders (CSHRDs) is a non-governmental, non-partisan and …
Somalia: Forgotten Victims of Torture
What happens to the victims of torture in Somalia ? Somalia is a country of which modern history is shaped by violence and lawlessness with turbulent political and security context. All most, every administration from the newly adopted federal level to the regional level, torture is a customised tool to punish critics which include journalists, …
Somalia: Charcoal Business Is the Main Cause of Deforestation
Charcoal illicit export business in Somalia is the main cause of deforestation in a country that is already hardly stricken by climate crisis. The illicit charcoal business in Somalia involves massive cutting of trees and deforestation and destruction of indigenous people’s environment and inflicting devastating life impact upon indigenous communities that include both nomads and …
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Somalia: HRDs Coalition CSHRDS Senior Members Meet with the Human Rights Minister.
Last Saturday human rights defenders from the Coalition of Somali Human Rights Defenders CSHRDS i.e. namely Asad Dhayow, Mohamed Abdullahi aka Shiino and Ikram Yusuf Mohamed met with the human rights minister Ms. HANIFA in her office in Mogadishu and discussed about the current human rights situation of the country and the protection of Somali …
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Somalia – (01 May 2011) Press Conference Child Soldier’s Father
The secret child soldier recruitment by alshabab operatives in the west is exposed in press conference held today by a father to one of alshabab recruited child soldiers from Zurich, Switzerland. Moalim Abdullahi Adaan is a father to Ayub Moalim Abdullahi, an alshabab child solider who was killed on 27 April 2011 in a battle …
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Death penalty 2020: Botswana, Somalia and South Sudan continue to dominate with executions in East and Southern Africa.
21 APRIL 2021 Botswana doubles the number of yearly executionsChina pursued the death penalty to crack down on offences related to Covid-19 prevention effortsFormer US administration executed staggering 10 people in less than six months in 2020Lowest number of executions recorded in a decade for third consecutive yearThe unprecedented challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic were …