Participation

What is SOMWA's relationship with other international organizations?

SOMWA has partnered with a few international organisations, such as IREX (International research and exchange Board) . We worked with them to create a Media Advocacy Project in Supporting Media and Civil Society in Somalia and Somaliland. SOMWA has also partnered with CARE International in creating a Media Women Empowerment Project.

For years, diplomats, aid workers, academics and government officials here have been vexed almost to the point of paralysis about how to attack this country's staggering problem of sexual violence, in which hundreds of thousands of women have been raped, many quite sadistically, by the various armed groups who haunt the hills of eastern Congo.

Equal participation and inclusiveness in young people through education and capacity building is the aim of a project led by the Live and Learn Environmental Education.

The project, called 'Building grassroots democracy in Fiji', funded by the European Union, has given 28 communities around Fiji the opportunity to grasp the fundamentals of their human rights.

Women leaders in Kigali City have been urged to participate in the forthcoming local leaders' elections.

The call was made, yesterday, by the Minister of Gender and Family Promotion, Jeanne d' Arc Mujawamariya, during a general assembly that brought together members of the National Women Council of Kigali City.

The launch of Female Civil Society and Human Rights Forum (FECSOHRIF) took place on Tuesday 1st February 2011 at the British Council Hall, Tower Hill in Freetown.

The occasion attracted officials from the United Nations, the National Fire Force, the Police, SLANGO, National Youth Commission, Civil Society, Lawyers and a host of distinguished personalities.

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak announced today that he will not run for reelection in September, a victory for the Egyptians that have been protesting his regime for the past week.

Dominating the nearly nonstop coverage has been the moving photographs published throughout the world of passionate protesters demanding their voices are heard.

For Egyptian women in the March of a Million and other street protests to oust authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak, the sometimes deadly demonstrations have been a show of force.

Garpeh produces about two such stories on the needs of women for broadcast each day by the Liberia Women Democracy Radio, housed in a two-story building in Congo Town on the outskirts of Monrovia.

Across the hall in the on-air studio, two men are hosting a talk show about reducing poverty. The day's theme: Transportation and how women in particular, due to their caretaking burdens, need better access to markets and medical centres.

Despite being the main victims in regional armed conflicts, women are still excluded from playing a role in conflict resolution and peace negotiations, women's rights leaders said on Tuesday.

During the closing meeting of the Arab Women's Intellectual Organisation, discussions focused on the impact of armed conflicts on women in Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon and Palestine.

Southern Sudan's Interim Constitution, which came into effect in 2005, stipulates a 25 percent quota for women's participation across all levels of regional and national government. Six years later, in the wake of a referendum that will give the south full independence, women hold 19 percent of the positions in the south's legislative assembly.