GECPD - Putting the lives of Women & Girls in their own hands
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...
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...
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...
By LAIGNEE BARRON September 14, 2018 Two sisters bled to death in Somalia after they were forced to undergo female genital mutilation earlier this week, the latest tragic death in a country where most women and girls...
An estimated 200 million girls and women worldwide have undergone FGM By Nita Bhalla NAIROBI, July 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A 10-year-old girl in central Somalia has died after undergoing female genital mutilation...
LONDON 6 March 2018 – Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage welcomes new data published by UNICEF today showing a significant drop in the global number of child marriages. However, the...