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Human rights are guaranteed in the Federal Constitution, which was adopted in August 2012. They fall under the Ministry of Human Rights established in August 2013. [1] The central authorities concurrently inaugurated a National Human Rights Day, endorsed an official Human Rights Roadmap, [2] and completed Somalia's first National Gender Policy. [3]
According to a Dec. 23 statement by ICE, the Somali National Army committed numerous human rights violations against civilians in those years, including the execution of suspected political ...
On March 29, 2024, Human Rights Watch urged and recommended in a statement that Federal Parliament of Somalia reject any proposed constitutional amendments that may weaken the safeguards for children's rights. Laetitia Bader, deputy Africa director of Human Rights Watch. [14] “Somalia’s parliament should resist efforts to weaken ...
In 2001, the United Nations commissioned an investigation on past human rights violations in Somalia, [11] specifically to find out if "crimes of international jurisdiction (i.e. war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide) had been perpetrated during the country's civil war".
Amnesty International would describe the UN's internal investigatory mechanisms for dealing with human rights violations by its troops in Somalia as highly inadequate and inconsistent with the UN's own standards. [149] In the vast majority of incidents, no UN forces were ever reprimanded or punished. [152]
Pages in category "Human rights abuses in Somalia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
In Somalia, freedom of speech and freedom of the media is guaranteed under the Somali Constitution established when the Federal Government was established in 2012. However, while there are swathes of blogs along with nearly 100 established media outlets, the culture of journalism has been violated with violence, arbitrary arrests, persecution ...
At least fourteen executions were carried out in 2016, [6] and the rate of executions rose to 24 in 2017, which human rights groups mainly attributed to military courts and the insurgent jihadist group al-Shabaab. The European Union requested that Somalia enact a moratorium on the death penalty as a result. [7]