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SIHA Network uses campaign work in order to further their cause, gender equality and the promotion of women’s rights in the Horn of Africa countries. 

 

In 2004, SIHA initiated a campaign against violence against women and this campaign addressed the following issues;

Female Genital Mutilation

Discriminatory Laws

Violence against Women in Armed conflict situations

Abduction

Female Poverty; a cross-cutting issue that affects women and hinders their capacity

 

In 2008, under the project activities of the Oxfam GB funded Raising Her Voice project, SIHA initiated a campaign to advocate for the ratification and domestication of the African Protocol on the rights of Women in Sudan. The campaign was called the African Protocol campaign

 

 

 

 
ABOUT SIHA

The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa –SIHA Network is a coalition of civil society organisations from North and South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia and Somaliland. SIHA was founded in 1995 by a collection of women's groups with the view of strengthening the capacities of women organizations in the Horn of African countries.

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