Somali Ministry of Women and Human Rights in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund and United Nations

Rape and sexual violence pose a “constant threat” to women and children living in camps for displaced peo

The Somali Ministry of Development and Social Affairs is drafting a bill that outlines a new gender policy for the co

Somalia's new government has to build a stronger and more transparent judicial system in order to prosecute perpetrat

Internally displaced people in Somalia are suffering sexual violence and other forms of abuse, reports the Human Righ

Relaxing in the beige-toned lobby of the Empire Hotel in Manhattan, a world away from her native Somalia, Dr.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres on Monday night presented the Nansen Refugee Award to Somal

Sheikh Fu'ad Mohamed Khalaf Shongole, the chief of awareness raising of al-Shabaab, the radical Islamist group opposi

The number of reported rapes in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, has ri

Like so many in the Horn of Africa, Nadifa needed food.

Women fleeing conflict and famine in Somalia are facing another threat to their lives, sexual assault.

The wind hollers, whipping up dust that scratches at our faces.

Somalia is the most dangerous country on earth to be a woman and a “living hell” for those struggling to

The United Nations today voiced alarm over the plight of Somali civilians caught up in the fighting pitting forces of

Lafole — Fighters loyal to Al shabaab movement on Sunday detained 15 Somali women whom are accused of violating

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Women living in areas controlled by Somalia's Islamists say they are increasingly the tar

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Al-Qaida-linked militants in war-torn southern Somalia have banned unrelated men and

NAIROBI, 10 January 2011 (IRIN) - At 75, Aagan Mahamud is at an age when, in Somali culture, her children should be t

The three Somali women sat huddled together in a corner of an empty, dusty room in a camp for displaced people in nor

11/12/2010 - Maternal mortality rates in Somalia are much too high.

The United Nations envoy for Somalia today strongly condemned the summary execution of two young women who had been a

Hargeisa (Somalilandpress) – The first lady opened a national conference for the women at Ambassador Hotel.

At least 10 women have died in the district of Afgooye in the region of the Lower Shabelle of Somalia due to labour c

NAIROBI, 7 September 2010 (IRIN) - Authorities in Galkayo, in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland,