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The Somali Media Women Association (SOMWA) has deployed trained local media observers to monitor the elections taking place today across districts in the Banadir...

Mogadishu—10 December 2025 (International Human Rights Day) The United Kingdom’s Human Rights Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Eleanor Sanders, held a...

Every year on December 10, the world marks Human Rights Day—a moment to reaffirm the universal rights and freedoms owed to every human being....

Mogadishu, Somalia – SOMWA Executive Director Maryan Seylac joined a high-level hybrid event and panel discussion on technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TF-GBV), held under the...

SOMWA has recently published a report on the rights of Somali women working in the media and the challenges they encounter while carrying out...

Baidoa, Somalia -  The Somali Media Women Association (SOMWA) announces the restoration of its official Facebook page after it was attacked and disabled for...

The Somali Media Women Association (SOMWA) participated in the Gender and Human Rights Advisory Council’s 16 Days of Activism Exhibition and meeting, held in...

Mogadishu, Somalia – 21 November 2025 – The Somali Media Women Association (SOMWA), a leading organisation advocating gender-sensitive media and women’s rights in Somalia,...