UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (foreground right) meets women leaders in Mogadishu [Photo: UNSOM] MOGADISHU, Somalia - Women from the federal republic of Somalia have been challenged to ...

Women's rights groups, prominent businesswomen and female politicians in Somalia are urging the country's male-dominated parliament to pass a bill reserving 30% of seats for women in next year's ...

Somalia, supported by the United Nations, celebrated the International Day for Women in Maritime on Sunday, with an event designed to celebrate women’s role in the country’s sea-based industries.

VIENNA (UNHCR) - When Zahara (not her real name) decided to become a police officer, she did not think that one day she would be the one needing protection. Zahara grew up in Burao, northern Somalia, ...

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has today launched a new report titled "Targeted Online, Unsafe Offline: Gender-Based Violence and Impunity Against Women Journalists in Somalia", ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Somalia rape women seeking medicine on their bases and routinely pay teenage girls for sex, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on ...

Somali women play a vital role in the country's food production, particularly in agriculture. This report focuses on the women working on the farms of Afgoye their daily routines, the challenges they ...

The woman who broke barriers as the first female foreign minister and deputy prime minister in culturally conservative Somalia now aims for the country’s top office as the Horn of Africa nation moves ...

MOGADISHU, Sept 20 (Reuters) - People often laugh when Fathi Mohamed Ahmed tells them she runs the first and only all-female newsroom in Somalia, one of the most dangerous places on the planet to be a ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Fadumo Abdinur sells scarves, skirts, perfume, and odds and ends out of a 10-by-10-foot kiosk at a bazaar, paying $562 each month to rent the space. But she'd like to find her way out. ...

On March 14, the conservative Heritage Foundation played host to the president of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia “whose self-declared independence … is not internationally recognized,” in ...