To empower Somali children/youth and mobilise them to participate in efforts to build a peaceful and democratic Somalia. SYPD's major areas of activity are peace-building and the promotion of democracy. It also works to empower young girls, to...
The aim is to help the Somali Children through Advocacy, Awareness in order to defend their Rights Protection. The Somali children have been living without central government for more than 19 years and missed all their primary Rights Protection. The...
To provide street children with food, shelter, education and medical care and build the capacity of duty bearers to provide protection the street children.SOYVO
The Street Children Concern (SCC) is a non-governmental, non-profit making organisation that was founded in 2008 in Somaliland. The prime objective of SCC is combating the orphans and vulnerable children in Somaliland and other parts of Horn of...
Somali Council for children is a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) established as a non-profit Organization on 1st July 2005 in Mogadishu by a group of intellectuals who voluntarily offered their time to serve their war-affected community,...
Somalia, which sits on the Horn of Africa, has the continent's longest coastline. The country was without a formal parliament for two decades between 1991 and 2012, which resulted in continuous fighting between rival warlords. Even after an...
Summary: Amnesty International commended the commitment shown by those African states that have ratified the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (the African Children's Charter). Amnesty International commended the commitment...
UN Special Procedures are a vital way for the UN Human Rights Council - and the rest of the world - to find out about human rights violations. They examine, monitor, advise and publicly report on human rights abuses in countries or territories...
Summary: General overview of Somalia's national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to conduct further research.National laws on children's rights
Status of the CRC in national law
Somalia has not ratified the Convention...
[3 October 2013] -
At least 94 people have died after a boat carrying African migrants sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the island's mayor says.
More than 150 have been rescued but about 200 are missing, officials say...
