We strive for gender equality by empowering women through advocacy, research & reforms. We lead initiatives that promote citizenship equality & social justice.

Somalia
Joined May 2019
Dr. Jacinta Maweu (IRG 2015 & CWG 2022-2024) will be hosting a hybrid lecture on October 22 that will critically interrogate how the representation of African perspectives on aid and development. #APDD #Africa #Peacebuilding #AfricanScholarship #Research #ForeignAid
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TURN YOUR BUSINESS IDEA INTO REALITY! Join the Start Your Business (SYB) training to learn business planning, marketing, and management skills. 📝 Register now: forms.gle/2H3eeyQ1QcVy2S2W8 #HanoAcademy #SIYB #Entrepreneurship #DhisMustaqbal
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We're excited to share that our Director @sahro participated today in the panel discussion “Analysis of the Gender Responsiveness of the African Union Nationality Protocol” during the 89th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Dakar. #ACHPR89
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We are at the 89th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in #Dakar, #Senegal, championing for gender equality, equal nationality rights and an end to statelessness. 12–21 October 2026. #ACHPR89OS #ACHPR89 #AUNationalityProtocol #GenderEquality
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🌍 Join us in Dakar for a conversation bringing African and diasporic perspectives to reparations and reparatory justice. 📅 15 October 2026 🕠 5:30–6:30 PM CEST 📍 Hotel King Fahd Palace, Dakar Co-hosted by ISHR and Instituto de Referência Negra Peregum @inst_peregum 🔗 ow.ly/1vIi50ZVuHE
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We’re happy to announce our Director @sahro will join the AU Nationality Protocol gender responsiveness panel discussion at #ACHPR89, supported by @EANationality 📍 Dakar | 13 Oct 2026, 1:30–3pm GMT #AUNationalityProtocol #EndStatelessness #GenderEquality #NationalityRights
The African Union Protocol on the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa is a progressive normative framework for ensuring the respect for the right to a nationality and eradication of statelessness in Africa. However, how responsive is the Protocol to certain gender aspects of nationality and statelessness? Join us and our friends at @equalitynow as we examine the Gender Responsiveness of the Protocol. ❓ACHPR Side Event. 🇸🇳 Dakar, Senegal. 🕘 13th October 2026. @equalitynow @SomGenderHub @NetworkSouthern @NOstatelessness @EndStatelessns @RefugeesAfrica
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The African Union Protocol on the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa is a progressive normative framework for ensuring the respect for the right to a nationality and eradication of statelessness in Africa. However, how responsive is the Protocol to certain gender aspects of nationality and statelessness? Join us and our friends at @equalitynow as we examine the Gender Responsiveness of the Protocol. ❓ACHPR Side Event. 🇸🇳 Dakar, Senegal. 🕘 13th October 2026. @equalitynow @SomGenderHub @NetworkSouthern @NOstatelessness @EndStatelessns @RefugeesAfrica
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We're attending the hybrid event 'Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) initiative where new findings are shared about measuring women’s #agency across 3 dimensions - #control over #assets, goal-setting & #decision-making, & sense of #control & #efficacy. Interesting!
Starting soon at 9:30 am (US/Eastern): 📌 Measuring Women’s Agency: New Tools, Takeaways, and What Comes Next 🤝 Organized by IFPRI and @WorldBankGroup 🎫 Register here: on.cgiar.org/4ydFpwa @CGIAR @TuftsUniversity @digitalgreenorg @gatesfoundation @BrookingsInst
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Looking forward to facilitating today’s @GETSPA_IAS Southern Africa Reading Group session on @lyn_ossome's “Thinking Care & Social Reproduction from the Third World.” Who sustains households & communities, who benefits, who bears the costs? Welcome all #FeministPoliticalEconomy
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Our first issue of the @EANationality Newsletter 2026 is out. Get to know what our very vibrant members have been up to in the first half of 2026. 👉eanationalitynetwork.org/wp-… @holdthechild @SomGenderHub @NubianRights @Haki_na_Sheria @HakiCentre @SbcsbcC @JulieLugulu @NamatiKenya
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If you’re applying for the Chevening scholarship you might way to take a look at this essay structure and sample shared by “Aikzat” on instagram. Good luck 🍀
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🚨 Wageningen University 2027 Master’s Scholarships are coming! If you are planning to study in the Netherlands in September 2027, start preparing now. Wageningen University & Research has announced its scholarship opportunities for the 2027/2028 academic year, including: ✅ Africa Scholarship Programme (ASP) • Tuition fees for 24 months • Living allowance • Return travel to the Netherlands • Visa costs • Health insurance ✅ Anne van den Ban Fund (ABF) • Support for talented students from developing countries • Can cover tuition, living costs, travel, visa and insurance ✅ Excellence Programme • Tuition fee waiver for the full 24-month Master’s programme ⚠️ This one is not fully funded because living expenses are not covered. 📅 WHEN WILL APPLICATIONS OPEN? Applications for the September 2027 Master’s intake are not open yet, and Wageningen has not announced the exact opening date. However, this is the important date: 🔥 Complete your Master’s application BEFORE 1 DECEMBER 2026 to be considered for the ASP, Excellence Programme or Anne van den Ban Fund. You generally do not submit a separate scholarship application. Eligible students are selected from applicants who have already applied for admission and are invited into the scholarship selection process. For ASP, applicants must be citizens of an African country, normally have a First Class degree/GPA of at least 80%, and complete their Bachelor’s degree before the scholarship deadline. Start preparing your: • Bachelor’s certificate • Academic transcript • English language evidence • CV • Other admission documents Official scholarship information: wur.nl/en/education/master/s…
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Meet the speakers & moderator for the 65th Anniversary event of the 1961 Convention. Join this vital discussion on protecting the right to nationality, legal safegurads & lived experience. 2 Sept 2026 | 10:00 CEST Zoom (EN / AR / FR) 🔗 Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Y20K…
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Climate responses that ignore unpaid care will not be effective and will deepen existing inequalities. To build resilience and advance gender justice, unpaid care must be at the centre of climate responses. Find out more: oxfam.org.uk/oxfam-in-action… #UniteForFairChange #Care #ClimateJustice
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At our Mogadishu workshop, Dr. Safia Shire highlighted the importance of reviewing Somalia’s 1962 Citizenship Law to ensure it reflects today’s realities & advances equal rights. She encouraged WLOs engage in the reform process. #EqualNationalityRights youtube.com/watch?v=w0wdETZt…
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Call for Abstracts Conference on Gender Transformative Higher Education in Africa
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EANN participated in the drafting of this submission on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) proposing concrete recommendations for addressing Statelessness in South Sudan. Read more 👉 files.institutesi.org/UPR_54…
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📢 Call for Applications Are you a civil society or community-based organisation working on peacebuilding, transitional justice, reconciliation, human rights or governance? @LPI_voices , together with @_CSVR and @_IJR_ , invites applications for the third cohort of the Capacity Strengthening Training on the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJP). 📍 Naivasha, Kenya | 📅 27–29 October 2026 🌍 For applicants from 9 countries across the Horn of Africa & Great Lakes 💰 All participation costs covered by LPI ⏰ Deadline: 30 August 2026 👉 Read the full Call for Applications here: life-peace.org/work-with-us/…
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