International Women’s Day 2021
Every year on March 8, we celebrate the achievements of women. However, do you know how the date was decided? The story is dated back to 1917 after women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia;...
Every year on March 8, we celebrate the achievements of women. However, do you know how the date was decided? The story is dated back to 1917 after women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia;...
2020 Theme: Shaping Peace Together Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the...
The twenty-year-old mother of 2 hopes to gain experience and master her skills to the level of becoming a Tailoring Skills Instructor. It is a skill she believes every woman should have, either for...
As she attends to customers in her retail shop, Hawa Jamaac Liban is content that she has realized her lifetime dream and at least made her contribution to society. Even though she no longer teaches,...
SHE always has one of the busiest days. If she is not providing counselling, support and advocacy for survivors of GBV and other human rights abuses, she will be busy interacting with and...
At only age 11 and in primary 6, she has already started living her dream of becoming an author. None of her parents ever attended school, but today she proudly displays her collection of...
GAROWE, Puntland – A court in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland state has on Sunday upheld death sentences against three men found guilty of gang rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl, Garowe Online reports. The Federal...
Galkayo, Puntland, March 26th, 2019. Galkayo Education Center for Peace and Development Executive Director’s congratulatory message to Zamzam Abshir Samriye on her election...
By Nita Bhalla Nairobi — Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region passed the country’s first Sexual Offences Law in 2016, which criminalises rape, sexual harassment and online sexual offences The gang rape and murder of a...
International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation is a United Nations-sponsored annual awareness day that takes place on February 6 as part of the UN’s efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation introduced in 2003. Female Genital...