WHRDs / HRDs in Somalia are the least connected human rights activists in the world due to the lack of protection mechanism available to them and they are brave some to work in the most exceptional situations in the world. This report sheds the light of their situation of work and untold challenges they face, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Training Journalists – Photo Courtesy @CSHRD Introduction: Disinformation is false and harmful information spread deliberately to divert the attention of the recipient from the truth. it aims to spread anger and hate etc. Disinformation erodes public trust in democracy, in the existing government systems, their faith in elections and other democratic institutions and processes. In …
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, …
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 …
Somalia: Charcoal Business Is the Main Cause of Deforestation Read More »
Reports comings from Diif village in in lower juba region of Somalia confirmed by multiple sources and eye witnesses suggest that systematic killings of 3 civilians (2 men and girl) who were mainly nomads, perpetrated by the Raaskambooni militias headed-by Sheikh Ahmed Madoobe, who is the current regional leader of Somalia’s jubaland region. The harrowing …
Somalia: Confirmed Reports of Systematic Killings in Gedo Region. Read More »
Jubaland, Somalia is formed from the lower juba region, middle juba region and Gedo region in the most south of Somalia and borders with Ethiopia, NFD kenya, and indian ocean. Jubaland is run by the former spiritual leader of alshabab; the Raaskambooni alshabab terrorist brigade (Sheikh Ahmed Madobe aka Ahmed Islam) who is the last …
Somalia: (27 April, 2021) – Jubaland Police Brutality v. HRDs/WHRDs Read More »
13 July, 2021 – Somalia: The Ministry of Women & Human Rights Development launches the national disability agency in an official ceremony attended by different signatories, politicians, diplomats, and invited Human Rights Defenders HRDs from the coalition of Somali Human Rights Defenders CSHRDs. The minister of women & human rights development (Hanifa) was also there …
Somalia: Launching Ceremony of the National Disability Agency. Read More »