LOOMA OOYAAN – NO ONE CRIES FOR THEM: THE PREDICAMENT FACING SOMALIA’S MINORITY WOMEN

USWO Organization - Somaliland: Minority Somali women and girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence due to poverty, marginalization and discriminatory attitudes, but this is often ignored by the authorities and the clans, say Minority Rights Group International (MRG) and IIDA Women's Development Organization in a new report. The report, Looma Ooyan - No one cries for them: The Predicament Facing Somalia's Minority Women, says the perpetrators of these abuses include members of dominant clans, militias and security forces, as well as men from minority communities.

SUPPORT TO PROMOTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF GENDER EQUALITY AND INCLUSION OF MINORITY WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT PROJECT

There has been a touchable improvement on minority women’s rights so far reached and achieved after the implementation of the project first phase on October to December 2014. The outputs of the project previous phase has resulted in and caused the enlargement of minority rights activist groups, pressure groups; as well as, potential women’s rights advocates who represent lead module of gender equality and stand for empowered minority women targeting to raise up their role in the society and in the way forward be widely heard around the country and make addressing their rights as a national democratic and sensitive issue.