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Journal articles on the topic "Women's rights Somalia"
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Tripp, Aili Mari. "Women's Movements and Constitution Making after Civil Unrest and Conflict in Africa: The Cases of Kenya and Somalia." Politics & Gender 12, no. 01 (March 2016): 78–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x16000015.
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As numerous conflicts have come to an end in Africa over the past two decades, women's movements have sought to advance a women's rights agenda through peace accords; through constitutional, legislative, and electoral reforms; as well as through the introduction of gender quotas. This article focuses the impact women's movements have had in shaping constitutions after periods of turmoil, particularly in areas of equality, customary law, antidiscrimination, violence against women, quotas, and citizenship rights. It demonstrates how countries that have come out of major civil conflict and violent upheaval in Africa after the mid-1990s—but especially after 2000—have made more constitutional changes with respect to women's rights than other African countries. The second part of the article provides two examples of how women's movements influenced constitutional changes pertaining to gender equality as well as the difficulties they encountered, particularly with respect to the international community.
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Mohamud, Maimuna. "Women, Piety and Political Representation." Hawwa 14, no. 2 (September 8, 2016): 166–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341297.
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The aftermath of violent conflict provides opportunities for fresh debates about gender politics. In sub-Saharan Africa, several post-conflict states have introduced constitutional reforms and quotas to promote women’s participation in government. Yet, women’s political representation in Somalia is a matter that goes beyond the hotly-debated gender quotas which are often championed by international donors and other peacebuilding actors. In post-war Somalia, women believe that the question of political representation is closely linked to the recognition of women’s ongoing contributions to society. For many women, the contemporary post-war Islamic discourses in Somalia have eroded some rights previously guaranteed—if imperfectly—by the pre-war state. Such discourses today have also constructed a new ideal version of Somali women in an Islamic society which largely dispossesses them from public life. In this article, I highlight Somali women’s forms of activism which are centered on engaging Islamic discourses in an attempt to change current perceptions about women’s roles in politics and public life. I examine women’s narratives for insights into the root causes of women’s exclusion and the strategies used to resist, counter, and challenge oppositional Islamic discourses. I conclude by considering how women’s ‘unorganized’ movements across Somalia—premised on working within a framework of Islam, are suggestive of multifaceted expressions of women’s agency in patriarchal and non-liberal contexts.
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Ruslan, Izzah Atirah. "Gender Inequality: African Union Strategy to Combat Women Poverty Crisis in Somalia." Jurnal Hubungan Internasional 15, no. 2 (November 29, 2022): 184–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jhi.v15i2.38198.
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Globalization has led to national security issues to occurred and resulted in people losing their fundamental human rights in some cases. Women’s poverty is clearly the deprivation of human rights for both women and young girls. Somalia, one of the nations in Africa regions, has suffered from the act of gender inequality that deprived the rights of women which led them to live in poverty. Social norms or traditions are playing a crucial role in worsening the condition of living hood among women in Somalia. While both men and women are indeed suffered poverty, however, men are getting wide chances to access job opportunities compared to women. However, in recent years, African Union has acknowledged the importance of women’s role in the economic development of the region, therefore African Union established the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Strategy as a guide to both the government of the states and women’s agency to spread awareness regarding the rights of the women to be equal as men. Therefore, this paper further will discuss how successful such strategies are to be able to construct new ideas and social norms in Somalia.
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Johansen, R. Elise B., and Salma A. E. Ahmed. "Negotiating Female Genital Cutting in a Transnational Context." Qualitative Health Research 31, no. 3 (January 10, 2021): 458–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732320979183.
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In this article, we explore migrant Somali and Sudanese women’s reflections and decision-making regarding female genital cutting in a transnational context wherein women are compelled to maneuver between contradictory social norms. These include traditional norms, which consider the practice to be associated with socially acceptable sexuality and reproduction, and international norms, which consider the practice to be a violation of sexual and reproductive rights. Our analysis builds on data from in-depth interviews with 23 women of Somali and Sudanese origin residing in Norway. Informed by three central theories of change, we categorize women along a continuum of readiness to change ranging from rebellious women eagerly pursuing the abandonment of female genital cutting and adopting international norms regarding the practice, to women supporting the practice and its traditional meanings. Ambivalent contemplators were placed in the middle of the continuum. Women’s positioning was further interlinked with social networks and perceived decision-making power.
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COOK, JOANNE. "Exploring older women's citizenship: understanding the impact of migration in later life." Ageing and Society 30, no. 2 (August 14, 2009): 253–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x09990195.
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ABSTRACTResearch on the ways in which having been an international migrant in later life shapes the welfare needs, preferences and expectations of non-native older people in rich countries is in its infancy, for both the ageing and migration fields have been slow to examine the experiences of older migrants. This paper focuses upon the welfare citizenship experiences of older women who migrated in later life to England, either as refugees or as post-retirement migrants. It reports findings from interviews and focus groups conducted with black Caribbean, Irish, Chinese and Somali older women migrants in Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK, as part of the Older Women's Lives and Voices Study. The paper explores their experiences of accessing welfare citizenship and the barriers they encountered in accessing mainstream services. In particular, it examines the unequal platform from which older migrants who do not speak English access welfare citizenship rights and services, and assesses the important constraints of discrimination and language differences. Despite the obstacles, the older women participants were actively pursuing their inclusion in welfare rights and services. The paper argues for more recognition of the important enabling role that informal systems of support provided by participation in community or cultural organisations plays in the welfare citizenship and agency of minority ethnic older women.
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Abathun, Asresash D., Abdi A. Gele, and Johanne Sundby. "Attitude towards the Practice of Female Genital Cutting among School Boys and Girls in Somali and Harari Regions, Eastern Ethiopia." Obstetrics and Gynecology International 2017 (2017): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1567368.
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Introduction. Female genital cutting (FGC) is a harmful traditional practice that violates women’s rights and threatens their health. Although much work has been done to tackle this practice in Ethiopia, the prevalence remains very high in Somali and Harari regions. This study aims to investigate the attitude towards FGC of young people (boys and girls) in Somali and Harari regions of Eastern Ethiopia. Methods. A cross-sectional quantitative study was carried out in Somali and Harari regions from October to December 2015. Two districts were purposely selected from the two regions, and a stratified random sampling technique was employed to select 480 subjects from the randomly selected schools. Results. Out of 480 questionnaires distributed, 478 (99.6%) respondents filled the questionnaires and returned them. The finding of the study reveals that 86% of study participants condemn the practice of FGC. Almost 59% of male participants from both study areas preferred to marry uncircumcised girls. Being a female and being a Muslim are significantly associated with the support toward the continuation of the FGC (P<0.05). Conclusion. Although the study demonstrates a positive attitude towards the abandonment of FGC, there is a need to increase the knowledge about the position of Islam in FGC and to educate women about the harmful effect of FGC.
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Abdullahi, Abdulkadir Mohamed, Kim Williamson, and Mohamed Yusuf Ahmed. "The impact of patriarchal culture on Somali women's participation in politics." Development Policy Review, September 15, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12747.
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AbstractMotivationSomali women's political progress has been slow. The nation's patriarchal clan traditions perpetuate gender discrimination, bestowing an absolute priority upon all men for public affairs, whereas clan women remain voiceless, voteless, and restricted to private (household) affairs.PurposeTo better understand why, despite the minimal formal constraints on women's participation in political life, informal institutions and customs determine the social, economic, and cultural constraints on women such that they are often poorly equipped and/or reluctant to engage in public political activity.Methods and approachBased on secondary literature, the article seeks to explain how the influences of the clan patriarchal system exert a negative impact on Somali women's political participation. It identifies four structural categories—cultural, social, economic, and political—by which patriarchy has persistently impeded Somali women's participation in the nation's politics.FindingsAlthough women have contested the patriarchal system in Somalia through their participation in public decision‐making processes in different sectors and their involvement in politics, including an increasingly higher level of education, and more participation in the labour force, their numbers are still insufficient compared to men's.Policy implicationsGiven that patriarchy has been identified worldwide as one of the prime obstacles to women's participation in political and socioeconomic processes, there is a need for official quotas for women's representation in politics to balance severe gender inequalities, achieve women's full realization of human rights, and influence the issues raised and how political policies are shaped. There is also a need for women's political representation to imprint their competence as decision‐makers. The article sets out recommendations for tackling the four main structural barriers to achieving this, so that women can contribute fully to the development of Somalia, on a par with men.
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Osman, E. "A model for the capacity building of Somalia midwifery educators through a blended, web-based Master Programme." European Journal of Public Health 30, Supplement_5 (September 1, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.1150.
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Abstract In most low-resource settings maternal and child mortality and morbidity are major public health concerns and closely related to sub-optimal care, and the most cost-effective response is to scale up women's access to quality midwifery care (Renfrew et al., 2014). It is further recognized that midwives educated per international standards, integrated in the health care system, and working in interdisciplinary teams in providing midwifery care could decrease maternal deaths (Renfrew et al., 2014). Somaliregion suffers from a shortage of qualified health care professionals, including midwives, the training of health care professionals is essential for the situation to improve. In this workshop, we will present the implementation of the Master Programme in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in three universities in Somaliland and Puntland as well as the impacts that a net-based program can have on individuals' professional development.
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Aden, Mohamed Ahmed, Farouk Majani, Jamila Aden, Khalif Mohamud Bile, Barbro Lundmark, and Stig Wall. "Empowering vulnerable Somali Girls and Women - a narrative on the role of education for health and development." Somali Health Action Journal 3, no. 1 (December 1, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.36368/shaj.v3i1.413.
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Promoting the education of girls and young women is a powerful strategy for empowering them in societies influenced by traditional patriarchal cultural norms. Hawa Aden Mohamed, a Somali educator, has been urging action on women's rights for over twenty years. Following years of exile during civil unrest, she returned to her homeland in 1999 and established the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development, a non-government organisation committed to strengthening the capacity of girls and women to advocate for fundamental human rights such as gender equality in education and health, and protection from abusive practices such as female genital mutilation. Within this narrative, the voices of Mama Hawa, current and former students and their mothers, school officials and local government representatives connect to tell the compelling story of this inspirational Somali-based Centre. This may serve as a catalyst for nurturing girls’ education and create an enabling environment for pivotal engagement in Somalia’s national development and the pursuit of human rights. Somali leaders at all tiers of governance, civil society organisations, educational institutions, the private sector, the wider communities, and international partners are urged to work to make gender equality and the empowerment of girls and women through education, a central theme for achieving all the Sustainable Development Goals.
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-, Sushma Yadav. "History of Political Empowerment of Women in Uganda." International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research 5, no. 2 (April 30, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i02.2780.
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This paper examines how the women’s movement in Uganda will lead to political empowerment of women. This paper investigates the role played by women in political sphere in Uganda. This paper will also focus on the struggle of women and women’s movement in politics, which has traditionally been considered as the men’s sphere. Moreover, it also investigates the conditions of women in Uganda from pre-colonial to post independence period and changes in the conditions within that time period based on the availability of secondary data. This research is done to throw light on the origin and role of women’s movement in Uganda and its achievements in terms of political empowerment of women. Available literature is insufficient to explain that whether it is due to the pressure of women’s movement that Museveni had to give space to women in politics or there were other reasons too. Using the data collected from various sources such as articles, books, Government of Uganda reports, it will find that women’s movement leads to empowerment of women in political sphere to the extent that Uganda’s quota design has set an inspiring model for other quota adopter countries in the region. In the central and eastern Africa region alone, Sudan, Burundi, South Sudan, Eritrea, Kenya, Djibouti, Zimbabwe, and Somalia have followed Uganda’s quota adoption in 1989 and reserved seat quotas were introduced in their majoritarian parliaments (Clayton, Josefsson & Wang: 2016). Hence, it was an early quota adopter country. This research would encourage the women’s movements in economic and social sphere. Because it is evident from this study that if oppressed people are aware about their rights and if they are able to organize themselves in a group to put pressure on the government for their rights then they can achieve it.
Books on the topic "Women's rights Somalia"
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Alnajjar, Ghanim. Report of the Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Somalia, Ghanim Alnajjar. Geneva: UN, 2005.
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Academy for Peace and Development (Hargeysa, Woqooyi Galbeed, Somalia), ed. Women's rights in Islam and Somali culture. Nairobi, Kenya: UNICEF, 2002.
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Dirie, Waris. Fleur du désert: Du désert de Somalie au monde des top-models, l'extraordinaire combat d'une femme hors du commun. Paris: Albin Michel, 1998.
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Dirie, Waris. Desert flower: The extraordinary journey of a desert nomad. London: Virago, 1999.
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Dirie, Waris. Pustinjski cvijet: Neobic no putovanje pustinjskog nomada. Zagreb: VBZ, 2002.
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Dirie, Waris. Desert flower: The extraordinary journey of a desert nomad. New York: William Morrow, 1998.
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Dirie, Waris. Desert flower: The extraordinary life of a desert nomad. London: Virago, 2002.
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Albin-Lackey, Chris. Harsh war, harsh peace: Abuses by al-Shabaab, the Transitional Federal Government, and AMISOM in Somalia. New York, NY: Human Rights Watch, 2010.
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Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. Nomad: From Islam to America--a personal journey through the clash of civilizations. New York: Free Press, 2010.
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Sait, M. Siraj, and M. Adil Sait. "The paradox of Islamic land governance and gender equality." In Land governance and gender: the tenure-gender nexus in land management and land policy, 153–66. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789247664.0013.
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Abstract The curious case of Islamic land perspectives in the context of African countries highlights the prospects and tensions in acknowledging distinctive Islamic land occurrences as part of the Islamic land governance or more broadly hybrid land governance regimes. Muslim customary land norms recall its history and context to produce land systems that appear more effective on the ground. These sociohistorical patterns mapping faithbased tenure contribute to additional types of land and property rights regimes that potentially increase access to land for women and marginalized groups. Examples from Kenya and Tanzania to Nigeria, Senegal and Somalia highlight that Islamic land perspectives cannot be seen as either homogeneous or existing in a vacuum. Shaped in various forms by customary practices, classical Islamic law, as well as colonial-era policies, Islamic land perspectives highlight the need for appropriate land governance. The paradox of 'Islamic' land governance is that while Islamic law has often been invisible and sometimes dismissed, it is an additional useful lens in rethinking the role of faith in land governance. The compelling and volatile relationship between Islamic land practices and governance query whether Islamic tenures need religious informed land governance to be effective.
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Minganti, Pia Karlsson. "Religion as a resource or as a source of exclusion? The case of Muslim women’s shelters." In Religion and Welfare in Europe. Policy Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447318972.003.0010.
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This chapter demonstrates, through a case study on women's shelters in Sweden, that it is not only the north–south divide that stands out in Europe, but also the conflictual notions of religion, and especially Islam, and secularity. It points to an assimilationist discourse that is widespread in Europe, which results in Muslim women being treated as victims of an oppressive religion. Such a normative secularism is dissolving religion as a resource and turning it into a source of exclusion. The shelter known as Somaya in Stockholm has been obliged to ‘tone down’ its Muslim profile by emphasising the idea of intersectionality as its political goal. The chapter then raises interesting questions about two frequently competing human rights, namely the freedom of religion and the rights of women—including those from minority religions.
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Aruch, Daniel, and Ronald Hoffman. "The polycythaemias." In Oxford Textbook of Medicine, edited by Chris Hatton and Deborah Hay, 5227–39. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198746690.003.0517.
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Polycythaemia or erythrocytosis is characterized by an abnormal increase in the numbers of red blood cells, leading to an elevation in the haemoglobin concentration and haematocrit (>49% in men and >48% in women). The cause may be either (1) primary—due to an intrinsic defect of haematopoietic stem cells; or (2) secondary—due to extrinsic stimulation of progenitor erythroid cells by circulating growth factors; and the condition needs to be distinguished from (3) pseudopolycythaemia—in which haematocrit is raised because the plasma volume is decreased. Secondary polycythaemias: associated with appropriate erythropoietin secretion—conditions that are ultimately the result of tissue hypoxia and subsequent excessive erythropoietin production include (1) living at high altitude, (2) chronic lung disease, (3) cyanotic congenital heart disease with right-to-left shunting, (4) carbon monoxide intoxication—as occurs in heavy smokers, (5) haemoglobin variants with increased oxygen affinity, and (6) mutations in genes involved in the oxygen sensing pathway. Associated with inappropriate erythropoietin secretion—in the absence of tissue hypoxia, inappropriate erythropoietin production commonly originates from the kidney and many renal disorders are associated with erythrocytosis. Tumour-associated polycythaemia may also result from cerebellar haemangioblastoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, phaeochromocytoma, and other adrenal tumours. Primary polycythaemia: polycythaemia vera—is a clonal, chronic progressive haematological malignancy characterized by excessive proliferation of erythroid, myeloid, and megakaryocytic elements in the bone marrow. Aetiology—up to 95% of cases are caused by somatic mutations in the pluripotent haemopoietic stem cells leading to replacement of a key valine residue by phenylalanine at position 617 of the JAK2 kinase (V617F), which releases it from autoinhibition. Less common mutations have been described recently, primarily JAK2 exon 12 and LNK mutations.
Conference papers on the topic "Women's rights Somalia"
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Assunção, Silvaleide Ataides, Vinicius Lemos Nascimento, Bruno Henrique de Aguiar Brito, Carolina Daher de Alencar Neves, Laura Queiroz da Silva, Pedro Vinicyus Novais e. Souza, Fernando Santos de Azevedo, and Lanúscia Morais de Santana. "NTRK MUTATION IN ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA: A RARE TYPE OF TRIPLE NEGATIVE." In Abstracts from the Brazilian Breast Cancer Symposium - BBCS 2021. Mastology, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29289/259453942021v31s2072.
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Introduction: Breast cancer is one of the neoplasms that most cause death in women. Among these, there are some subtypes of greater biological aggressiveness, such as triple negative and HER overexpressed, which are associated with greater recurrence and mortality. Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC), salivary gland type, represents less than 0.1% of primary breast carcinomas and has indolent biological behavior and favorable prognosis compared with nonspecial triplenegative types. Case Report: A 51-year-old woman diagnosed with locally advanced ACC in the right breast, with negative immunohistochemistry for hormone receptors and HER2, underwent quadrantectomy with upfront axillary dissection, followed by adjuvant radiotherapy. After 12 years of diagnosis, she presented significant back pain, with magnetic resonance imaging scan evidencing bone lesion without medullary involvement in D7 and L1 suggestive of the secondary implant. Anatomopathology revealed the same histology as the primary tumor. Re-evaluation of chest tomography showed progression of pulmonary disease, 5 months after diagnosis of the first metastasis, underwent segmentectomy, with descriptive pathology identical to the initial lesion. Due to the oligoprogression and tumor type, somatic genetic research of the lung material was requested, which revealed a mutation in the NTRK gene, patient is still waiting for Larotrectinib in court. Discussion: The tumor has an unusual histological type, rare occurrence, slow progression course, and the absence of lymph node metastasis; the average incidence is around age 60. In this case, a young patient presented an ACC tumor with lung and bone metastasis. Due to the rarity, there is no definitive consensus regarding the ideal treatment, with the literature referring to the choice of mastectomy. Conclusions: Although malignant breast neoplasms and nonspecial subtypes, such as ductal and triple negative, have a poor prognosis, breast carcinoma of this aforementioned type has a favorable prognosis. The search for driver mutations in cancers of special types, together with the advances in genetic medicine, allows satisfactory results with target-specific treatments.