International Day of Peace 21 September
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...
GECPD Blog
SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDES; A WOMAN’S STRUGGLE TO REDEEM HER CHILDHOOD AMBITION
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...
LOST DREAMS RESTORED AND VALIDATED THROUGH GECPD’S TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM
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,...
STRENGTH OF A WOMAN; CHALLENGING SOCIO-CULTURAL STEREOTYPES THROUGH PRACTICAL ENGAGEMENT
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...
‘DAYS OF OUR LIVES’; A YOUNG GIRL’S AMBITION TO DRIVE CHANGE THROUGH LITERATURE
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...
A top court in Somalia upholds death sentences for rapists
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...
GECPD WELCOMES THE APPOINTMENT OF ZAMZAM ABSHIR TO THE NEW COUNCIL OF GALKAYO
Galkayo, Puntland, March 26th, 2019. Galkayo Education Center for Peace and Development Executive Director’s congratulatory message to Zamzam Abshir Samriye on her election...
Somalia: Gang Rape and Murder of 12-Year-Old Girl Sparks Outrage in Somalia
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...
Commemoration of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
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...
A life Changed! Mukhtar’s Story
Mukhtar Qasim Ali trekked for 90 kilometres to seek refuge in Galkayo as an IDP after his family lost their entire source of livelihood to the drought that devastated most parts of Somalia in...
16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM
GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO FIGHT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN The 16 Days Campaign is an international annual event that congregates activists, government leaders, students, academia and the private sector in many countries across the world including...