ATHENS (Reuters) – Women in Greek migrant camps are too scared to leave their tents at night or use communal showers, and many pregnant women have to sleep on the floor in unsanitary conditions, Amnesty International said on Friday. More … Continued
Abdi sheikh, Abdirahman Hussein Members of the Golden Girls Football Centre, Somalia’s first female soccer club, attend their training session at the Al-Nureyn indoor fitness centre in Mogadishu, Somalia September 26, 2018. Picture taken September 26, 2018. REUTERS/Feisal Omar MOGADISHU … Continued
By Rhiannon Long Her Dynamic, a group of Somali poets, will be hosting a Somali festival at the Broadway Theatre in Barking. The event aims to celebrate women’s empowerment and activism through fashion displays, poetry readings and theatre performances. Her Dynamic … Continued
By Hassan M. Abukar The recent murder and burning in Mogadishu of Ahmed Mukhtar Salah “Ahmed Dowlo”, a family man and father of 12 children, was a human tragedy that has elicited widespread outrage and condemnation from many Somalis. Besides … Continued
Harun Maruf A 10-year-old girl has died in Somalia due to complications from female genital mutilation (FGM). Mumtaz Qorane was the third child to die in the country this week after undergoing the practice, which is also known as female … Continued
By Hassan M Abukar When Lul “Araweelo” Kulmiye was a child, she had big dreams. “I will work with a pen and notebook in my hand,” she recalled saying. Recently, when she found herself standing in a Norwegian court interpreting … Continued
By Emma Batha Fadumo Cusman , mother of Deeqa Nuur, a 10-year-old Somali girl who died from FGM, is pictured (left) with anti FGM campaigner Ifrah Ahmed while filming a documentary in Lasoley, central Somalia, August 11, 2018. Photo by Nuur … Continued
By Emily Witt, New Yorker Most coverage of Ilhan Omar, the thirty-five-year-old state legislator who won the Democratic primary in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District last night, has focussed on her identity. She was born in Somalia, and she came to the United … Continued
People are keeping count of how many women they have seen driving. AFP NOOR NUGALI RIYADH: Ever since June 24, when the ban on women driving was lifted, many Saudis have been trying their luck at spotting an actual woman … Continued
By Salma Zulfiqar , Daily Beast A “Migration Blanket” created by refugee women from Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Senegal – together with international artist and activist Salma Zulfiqar – shows the challenges they face with integration in the UK as well as … Continued
Halah Alhamrani runs a women’s gym called FlagBoxing in the Rea Sea city of Jeddah in a country where exercising in public has long been seen as ‘unbecoming’ for women Throwing punches in a gym tucked away from prying eyes, … Continued
Militants and religious extremists, controlling many parts of Somalia, branded women’s participation in sports an immoral act — but women are playing basketball again there BY SUAD GALOW BASKETBALL PLAYERS IN MOGADISHU PREPARING FOR THE INTERSTATE TOURNAMENT THERE. (SOMALI WOMEN FOUNDATION). … Continued
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