Tag: VAW

SOAWR has partnered with UN Women to #ACTtoEndViolence Against Women

Exciting news! We’re pleased to announce that SOAWR has with UN Women handle under the #ACTtoEndViolence Against Women programme. ACT is a new game-changing commitment between the European Commission and UN Women as co-leaders of the Action Coalition on Gender Based Violence (GBV), in collaboration with the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women. Through direct investments in feminist movements, strengthening intersectional alliances, and coordinating a shared advocacy agenda, ACT will amplify women’s rights movements as they coordinate their push for justice. In the current context of pushback on gender equality and the rise in anti-rights movements, ACT will seek

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‘Sudan Public Order Law Still Being Implemented’ – SIHA Network

Source: SIHA Network, September 2021. On August 15th 2021, Sudanese artist, Fatim Ibrahim Hassan (also known as ‘Marwa Al-Dowaliya’) was physically assaulted and sexually harassed, according to her alleged statement to SIHA on August 19/2021, by 13 policemen from “Sharg Al Nile Police station” of the “community Security division”, which has been known since the Al-Bashir regime as the Sudan Public Order law divison. Marwa was assaulted alongside another 8 women and 21 men. This situation happened during a police raid on a wedding ceremony in Khartoum North – Sharg Al Nile area. Marwa allegedly indicated that she and the

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