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January 16, 2025 News Release

East Africa, Horn: Civilian Suffering in Armed Conflict

Crackdowns on Dissent, Civic Space; Impunity for Abuse

Refugees are taken in trucks
March 29, 2024 News Release

Somalia: Constitutional Proposals Put Children at Risk

Amendments Could Weaken Restrictions on Child Marriage, FGM

Somali members of Parliament vote on a resolution on the procedural rules for constitutional amendments, Mogadishu, Somalia, January 24, 2024.
December 21, 2023 Letter

Joint Letter to Secretary Austin Urging Pentagon to Make Amends for Civilian Harm in Somalia

February 24, 2023 News Release

Somalia: Revamp Intelligence Agency Bill

Draft Law Grants Abusive Agency Broad Powers of Detention, Surveillance

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks at his inauguration ceremony in Mogadishu, Somalia, June 9, 2022. 
December 11, 2022 Letter

Joint CSO Letter on Abdalle Ahmed Mumin

Drop Charges, End Harassment of Journalists

November 1, 2022 Dispatches

Somalia Reeling from Devastating Attack on Education Ministry

Al-Shabab Car Bombings Leave at Least 121 Dead, Hundreds Wounded

A destroyed building and vehicles after a double car bomb attack at a busy junction in Mogadishu, Somalia.
October 14, 2022 News Release

Somalia: Free Detained Journalist

Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, Respected Media Rights Advocate, Jailed in Mogadishu

A man in speaks into a microphone
August 11, 2022 Letter

Joint Letter to President Biden Calling for Transparency and Accountability in US Counterterrorism Policy Review

President Joe Biden speaks about foreign policy, at the State Department in Washington, February 4, 2021. 
May 25, 2022 Dispatches

Still No Justice in Somalia Health Workers Massacre

New Leadership Should Review Pending Abuse Investigations

An ambulance transports patients to a  hospital from a camp for the internally displaced people on the outskirts Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2017.
May 20, 2022 News Release

Somalia: US Redeployment Should Stress Civilian Protection

Minimize Civilian Harm, Ensure Justice for Abuses

Somali families, displaced after fleeing the Lower Shabelle region amid an uptick in US airstrikes, wait at an Internally Displaced Person camp near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 12, 2020.
April 14, 2022 Statement

Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child Review of Somalia

90th Session

October 12, 2021 News Release

UN: Noncompetitive Rights Council Election Aids Abusers

Withhold Votes for Serious Rights Violators Cameroon, Eritrea, UAE

UN General Assembly Hall
November 23, 2020 News Release

Somalia: Ensure Justice in Health Worker Massacre

Boost Stalled Investigation into Killing of 8 in Rural Village

An ambulance transports patients to a  hospital from a camp for the internally displaced people on the outskirts Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2017.
November 20, 2020 Letter

Letter to Somalia Authorities on Gololey Investigations

October 5, 2020 Letter

Joint Letter Re: Concerns and Recommendations on Somalia’s New Media Law

Somali journalists in Mogadishu, Somalia December 29, 2019. 

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