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Somaliland
Fight to Gender-Based Violence
Creation of institutional and social environment for gender
equity and equality to fight against gender-based violence
Project name : Stop Gender Based Violence in Somaliland
Duration months : 28
Forecasted starting date : n/a
Donors : European Commission
Description :
: Somalia is a highly traditional country. Due to the civil war which began in 1991 and is still on-going),
the country has operated without a central government for almost twenty years. War and state collapse
has stripped women of the considerable legal and political gains made during the years after Independence.
Since 1991 the re-emergence of customary law, the extended use of shari’a law and resort to clan-based
forms of political representation has meant women have been virtually excluded from the political and
judicial structures that have emerged in different parts of the country. The intervention aims to create
an institutional and social environment in Somaliland for enabling the achievement of gender equity and
equality and for fighting against Gender Based Violence.
The specific objective is to strengthen national and community mechanisms to address Gender Based Violence.
Descrizione :
: La Somalia è un paese molto tradizionale e conservatore che, a causa della guerra civile iniziata nel
1991 ed ancora in corso, da oltre 20 anni non ha un governo centrale. Questo ha fatto sì che la maggior
parte delle conquiste legali e politiche ottenute delle donne venissero in pratica cancellate. Il
riemergere di leggi e consuetudini tradizionali, l’applicazione della shari’a e il ritorno alla
rappresentazione politica tramite il clan, hanno escluso le donne dalle strutture politiche e giudiziarie
in quasi tutto il paese. Questo progetto si propone di creare in Somaliland le condizioni di base per ottenere
la parità di diritti
tra uomo e donna, il riconoscimento all'eguaglianza sociale e per combattere la violenza basata sul genere.
Local partners :
Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare; Nagaad Network (Women Umbrella Association); Women Lawyers Association (WLA).
Ministero del Lavoro e degli Affari Sociali; NAGAAD (Rete di Associazioni di Donne); WLA (Associazione delle Donne Avvocato)
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