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Mapping Report: Specialized Services Available For Persons With Disabilities in Somalia

24/10/2023

BACKGROUND Persons with disabilities are one of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in Somalia. Due to limited legislation and policy addressing disability rights and inclusion, persons with disabilities face numerous forms of discrimination, such as physical barriers, negative attitudes from their community, and a lack of access to existing social services. In the context

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Workshop Empowers Persons with Disabilities in Mogadishu to Navigate Pathways to Justice.

27/04/2023

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The Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) Has Concluded A Two-Day Regional Consultative Forum For Disability Rights, Which Took Place on March 21, 2023.

23/03/2023

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SOMALI DISABILITY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK (SODEN) EXPRESSES ITS HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES FOR AHMED WARSAME’S TRAGIC DEATH.

23/01/2023

Mogadishu, 23 January 2023— The Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) offers condolences on the tragic death of the Director of the Department of Disability in the Benaadir regional administration. Ahmed Hassan Warsame was a visually impaired man who dedicated his life to serving the disabled people living in the Benaadir region. Ahmed Hassan was among

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SODEN Concluded Yesterday, November 16, 2022, Two Days of a Regional-Level Consultative Forum for Disability rights that focused on the challenges and barriers faced by people with disabilities

17/11/2022

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SODEN IS CONDUCTING TWO DAYS DISABILITY INCLUSION AND DATA COLLECTION WORKSHOP IN BAIDOA SOUTHWEST STATE-SOMALIA.

24/08/2022

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A TRAINING WORKSHOP ON DISABILITY RIGHTS ON ISLAMIC SHARIA & CRPD CONCEPTS WAS HELD FOR JUSTICE PROMOTERS, LAWYERS, AND OTHER PROGRAM STAFF.

01/07/2022

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Somali Disability Empowerment Network SODEN has had a fruitful meeting with the Newly Established National Disability Agency.

06/01/2022

Today, on 5th January 2022, the Somali Disability Empowerment Network SODEN has had a fruitful meeting with the National Disability Agency NDA in Mogadishu on Somali disability rights. The purpose of today’s meeting was to build a collaborative mechanism and commitment among Organizations for Persons with Disability OPDs and the National Disability agency NDA through

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Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) Concluded Two Days Long Workshop Training About Data Collection and Disability Inclusion in Mogadishu.

13/12/2021

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MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

03/12/2021

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SODEN strongly condemns the attempt killings of Mohamed Amin Mohamud, a human rights defender, who has an enthusiasm for working with disabled people in Kismaayo Somalia.

29/06/2021

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Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) has concluded a 3 days long training workshop held for its justice promoters JPs under the program of Expending Access to Justice (EAJ) funded by USAID through the pact World

20/06/2021

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Somalia Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) Has Launched a Fruitful One-Day Long Workshop Session Funded by USAID Through PACT

05/04/2021

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Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) are Very Much Saddened About the Exclusion of PWDs from the Current Ongoing Political Process in Somalia

31/01/2021

MOGADISHU: Historically, persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Somalia have rarely participated in elections either as candidates or voters due to prevailing cultural stigmatization against PWDs, the absence of political will to recognize PWDs’ participation to the political process and a lack of awareness on their rights to participate in the electoral process. Somali Provisional Constitution

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IN THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD DISABILITY DAY 2020, SODEN HAS DISTRIBUTED VISUALLY IMPAIRED AID EQUIPMENTS TO THE WEYDOOW CAMP DISABLED RESIDENTS..

07/12/2020

Somalia Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) is one of the most activist local organization that advocates the Rights for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Somalia. SODEN provides services to PWDs on behalf of advocacy. One of the major activities SODEN provides to PWDs includes raising awareness on discrimination against PWDs, empowering them through capacity building, and

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SODEN Statement on World Sight Day Thursday 8 October 2020

08/10/2020

On Thursday 8 October 2020, Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) joins the rest of the world in celebration of World Sight Day. World Sight Day is the main advocacy event for raising awareness about blindness and vision impairment – The Right to Sight – and is observed annually on the second Thursday of October. This

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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF SOMALIA DISREGARDS THE FORMATION OF THE SOMALI NATIONAL DISABILITY AGENCY

07/09/2020

Following the parliamentarian approvals of the National Disability Agency bill in November and December 2018, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo signed into the bill on the establishment of Somalia’s National Disability Agency at the presidential signing ceremony on 31st December 2018. These serve as key milestones for persons

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SODEN Strongly Condemns the Brutal Killing of the Chairperson of Disabled Groups of Southwest State of Somalia

02/07/2020

PRESS RELEASE: MOGADISHU: Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) is deeply saddened about the brutal killing of the Chairperson of the disability groups in Baidoa, Mr. Sharif Mukhtar who was a wheelchair user. Mr. Mukhtar has been a very key prominent human rights activist who actively advocated for the rights of people with disabilities in the

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SODEN’s Interventions Towards COVID-19 Pandemic Prevention and Containment Measures.

28/05/2020

As a response to COVID-19 pandemic prevention and containment, SODEN in partnership with ABILIS Foundation – Finland, implemented a two month period Emergency Food Distribution Project to People With Disabilities’ (PWDs) Households in IDP camps of Mogadishu, Somalia who are mostly at risk due to ongoing lockdown. The intervention was undertaken between April – May

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SOMALIA: COVID-19 and How its Affecting People with Disabilities.

08/04/2020

MOGADISHU: In Somalia, in the absence of reliable census data, persons with disabilities are estimated to be at least 15% of the population. The majority are among the poorest part and most vulnerable groups of the population. Persons with disabilities face various physical, attitudinal and institutional barriers to access food, healthcare services, education, and protection

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Category: NEWS

Mapping Report: Specialized Services Available For Persons With Disabilities in Somalia

Workshop Empowers Persons with Disabilities in Mogadishu to Navigate Pathways to Justice.

The Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) Has Concluded A Two-Day Regional Consultative Forum For Disability Rights, Which Took Place on March 21, 2023.

SOMALI DISABILITY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK (SODEN) EXPRESSES ITS HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES FOR AHMED WARSAME’S TRAGIC DEATH.

SODEN Concluded Yesterday, November 16, 2022, Two Days of a Regional-Level Consultative Forum for Disability rights that focused on the challenges and barriers faced by people with disabilities

SODEN IS CONDUCTING TWO DAYS DISABILITY INCLUSION AND DATA COLLECTION WORKSHOP IN BAIDOA SOUTHWEST STATE-SOMALIA.

A TRAINING WORKSHOP ON DISABILITY RIGHTS ON ISLAMIC SHARIA & CRPD CONCEPTS WAS HELD FOR JUSTICE PROMOTERS, LAWYERS, AND OTHER PROGRAM STAFF.

Somali Disability Empowerment Network SODEN has had a fruitful meeting with the Newly Established National Disability Agency.

Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) Concluded Two Days Long Workshop Training About Data Collection and Disability Inclusion in Mogadishu.

MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

SODEN strongly condemns the attempt killings of Mohamed Amin Mohamud, a human rights defender, who has an enthusiasm for working with disabled people in Kismaayo Somalia.

Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) has concluded a 3 days long training workshop held for its justice promoters JPs under the program of Expending Access to Justice (EAJ) funded by USAID through the pact World

Somalia Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) Has Launched a Fruitful One-Day Long Workshop Session Funded by USAID Through PACT

Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) are Very Much Saddened About the Exclusion of PWDs from the Current Ongoing Political Process in Somalia

IN THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD DISABILITY DAY 2020, SODEN HAS DISTRIBUTED VISUALLY IMPAIRED AID EQUIPMENTS TO THE WEYDOOW CAMP DISABLED RESIDENTS..

SODEN Statement on World Sight Day Thursday 8 October 2020

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF SOMALIA DISREGARDS THE FORMATION OF THE SOMALI NATIONAL DISABILITY AGENCY

SODEN Strongly Condemns the Brutal Killing of the Chairperson of Disabled Groups of Southwest State of Somalia

SODEN’s Interventions Towards COVID-19 Pandemic Prevention and Containment Measures.

SOMALIA: COVID-19 and How its Affecting People with Disabilities.

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