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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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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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Call For Immediate Release of 16 Years Old (Raped) Disabled Girl Detained in CID Custody at Hodan District, Mogadishu Somalia.

01/05/2020

JOINT PRESS RELEASE: Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) and Somali National Disability Council (SNDC) jointly condemn any type and act of sexual assault against the women and the girls in Somalia, in particular women and girls with disabilities. In this year, more girls who are younger than 18 years have been sexually assaulted (raped). Girls

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Somalia’s Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) Grieves the Loss of Five Somali Citizens Who Were Individuals with disabilities Due Symptoms of COVID-19 in Mogadishu Somalia.

26/04/2020

SOMALIA: DISABLED PEOPLE AND COVID-19 UPDATE Somalia’s Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) grieves the loss of five Somali citizens who were individuals with disabilities in Mogadishu Somalia. With a great loss, the individuals (3 Male and 2 Female) who died from typical COVID-19 symptoms in Mogadishu from 16 March-25 April 2020 they were among the most

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SODEN conducted two days’ workshop of understanding CRPD supported by Abilis foundation Finland.

01/01/2020

Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) has organized two days fruitfully kick off workshop held in Hotel Afrik Mogadishu-Somalia the purpose was to promote rights of Somali disability awareness and understanding of UN-convention on rights of persons with disability (UN-CRPD) which SODEN translated into Somali language in order to comprehend entire participants deeply by the convention.

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The world moves closer to being polio-free.

24/10/2019

The World Health Organization welcomed a “historic step” toward a polio-free world on Thursday as an expert panel certified that the second of three types of the crippling virus has been eradicated globally. The announcement by the Global Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication says the type 3 poliovirus was wiped out this week.

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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

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

Call For Immediate Release of 16 Years Old (Raped) Disabled Girl Detained in CID Custody at Hodan District, Mogadishu Somalia.

Somalia’s Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) Grieves the Loss of Five Somali Citizens Who Were Individuals with disabilities Due Symptoms of COVID-19 in Mogadishu Somalia.

SODEN conducted two days’ workshop of understanding CRPD supported by Abilis foundation Finland.

The world moves closer to being polio-free.

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