Through its partnership with SOMWA and Somali authorities, UNESCO pledged to continue supporting freedom of expression and ...

The Somali community in Egypt, particularly refugees, faces many challenges: isolation, limited access to resources, cultural ...

Women's rights groups, prominent businesswomen and female politicians in Somalia are urging the country's male-dominated parliament to pass a bill reserving 30% of seats for women in next year's ...

Hoyo now works out of a $1.6 million facility. It had a stand at the 2025 State Fair and its sambusas are served in school ...

Nearly a third of Somalia's parliamentary seats will be reserved for female lawmakers in an election next month, the prime minister said, a measure long demanded by women's rights campaigners in the ...

The word for "mother "in Somali is "hoyo." In 2018, we introduced you to a company by that name. Mariam Mohamed, who came from Somalia for college, noticed how hard it was for Somali women to get jobs ...

Joint Statement on 25 Years of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325: Delivering on the Promise of Women’s ...

That question echoed through the hall in Mogadishu as journalists, diplomats, and human rights advocates gathered for a one-day workshop on "Digital Safety and Gender Justice: Ending Impunity for ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) – A woman who fled war-torn Somalia as a child was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for sending $1,450 to members of a terrorist organization in her native country. Nima Ali ...

GALKAYO, Somalia (UNHCR) - Hawa Aden has been called a witch. She and her women colleagues have been labelled traitors to Somali culture and the Islamic religion, and had Friday sermons preached ...

VIENNA (UNHCR) - When Zahara (not her real name) decided to become a police officer, she did not think that one day she would be the one needing protection. Zahara grew up in Burao, northern Somalia, ...

Kidnapped British woman freed from pirate captors in Somalia; to fly to Kenya British tourist Judith Tebbutt, 56, who was snatched by Somali gunmen from a resort island in Kenya and whose husband ...