by admin_HRWF | Aug 24, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Abdi Sheikh Reuters (20.08.2020) – https://reut.rs/34sZ9ko – Hafsa was married off at 13 by her father to a man who paid $100. She and her mother say she was beaten and raped for two years before they convinced him to divorce her. “The man...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 25, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
HRWF (25.06.2020) – On 2 March 2020, Professor Mahmoud Jama Ahmed-Hamdi informed HRWF about alarming death threats targeting him in Somalia. HRWF and Humanists International helped him relocate to a neighbouring country. As he was also a human rights defender,...
by admin_HRWF | Mar 13, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Somali professor formerly jailed for blasphemy facing increasing danger. Professor Mahmoud Jama Ahmed-Hamdi HRWF (13.03.2020) – On 2 March 2020, Professor Mahmoud Jama Ahmed-Hamdi informed HRWF about an alarming new death threat from a local preacher during a...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 12, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
On 29 January 2020, two days after his release, Professor Mahmoud Jama Ahmed-Hamdi called HRWF for help after spending ten months and seven days in prison. HRWF (12.02.2020) – On 30 April 2019, Mahmoud Jama Ahmed-Hamdi who is a university lecturer in Hargesia,...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 6, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Ugandan woman from east London was accused of mutilating daughter in 2017 By Hannah Summers and Rebecca Ratcliffe The Guardian (01.02.2019) – https://bit.ly/2SmcJQT – The mother of a three-year-old girl has become the first person to be found...
