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Somali Women Should get their fair share in the Somali political process
July 5, 2012 · 24 Comments
SOMALI WOMEN CIRCLE NETWORK (SWCN)
Dear Friends of SWCN,
We want to inform you that Somali Women’s Circle Network (SWNC) is presently developing new strategies that will address and enhance the representation and the participation of Somali women in the current political process. We are deeply concerned that women are absent in today’s political decision making of Somalia.
Furthermore, the current political process is led by respected Somali elders who do not recognize women’s role in public affairs and the six signatories of the Roadmap. SWCN therefore calls for all concerned Somali women and men to stand together to bridge the widening gap caused by disproportionate representation and participation of women in politics. To close the gap we are asking you to join us in partnership to achieve this goal by:
(a) Supporting successful transition to a new inclusive and democratic government in Somalia.
(b) Continuously enhancing the Somali women’s political agenda forward by
i) Ensuring equal representation of women and men in the established four technical committees that are facilitating the end of the transitional period.
ii) Establishing an independent oversight women committee that ensures that women’s 30% quota are met by each clan.
iii) Opening dialogue with Somali elders in order to seek their understanding of the importance of Somali women’s participation in politics, this would guarantee the successful implementation of the outcomes of the roadmap and the draft constitution.
iv) Applying the 30% quota not only to the parliament but also at the all levels of the[i]new government including executive positions and ministries.
v) Establishing a future plan to enhance women’s representation quota to 50%.
With these in mind, we strongly believe that together, we can pave the way for women’s role in tomorrow’s political leadership in Somalia.
We encourage SWCN members, friends and supporters to launch this campaign by utilizing your unique skills, ideologies and resources to advance Somali women’s call for social and political reform in Somalia. We also believe sharing information and exchanging ideas will strengthen the campaign.
For SWCN campaign, please visit our website atwww.Somaliwomenscircle.org
You can also share your feedback and update of your campaign with us by writing to us at Somaliwomenscircle@gmail.com
We look forward collaborating with you on this important campaign. Together we succeed.
Sincerely,
SWCN Public Relations
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Waagas bay hablaaha Somalidu qurux badan yahen. Chemical free and political free. Now days they more greedy than the men and nothing but chemicals and toxic. If you get into an elevator with them, you will come out suffocated with their chemicals including perfumes.
I always support organic solutions and women in politics will not work in Somalia. Its better they stay away and dont dirty themselves like us men. They should let us swim in our dirt till we come clean otherwise the whole society will be contaminated.
Somali women were beautiful in the old days, look at their smiles now days I see nothing but hijjab, Dianna and jeans.
Thats why some men have became al shabab but look how girls used to dress—who had more freedom now them or the present?
Women in politics will not change Somali men, they can't even change us at home, what can they achieve in politics?
Kays There still some women with natural beauty under her hijabe only for her husband. Everytime if i got a nikkle for hearing Masha'ALLAH you look like those women when somalia started i would be a miljonair. Someone even wanted portret of me.
moahahaha Masha Allah. I'm against girls that damage their natural skins with Western chemicals made in China from God knows what.
I advocate against makeup and chemical abuse. I usually ask my female relatives if they use any of those things not to call me haahahahaha….dee you can't discriminate you gotto start your values at home.
Hahaha i thought why is he dissing lady dianna but you r talkin about bleach cream loooool. Sometime you make me laugh with your sillie comments whether they r true i dnt know. At leats you not disrespecting somalis kids en women who are suffering whether they from somalia or somaliland. I do agree with you, women you should not get involde with politics just becouse the islam says a women can rule. I think there nothing wrong with when she is helping her husband. Look like the djibuti first lady she is a lianess i like her, what she is doing not a single somalis men can do since afweny got the power.
Oke afweny build up mogadishu nice but he neglected the rest of somalia, if he did that for all somalia, maybe somalia wouldn't be in thiss mess (only ALLAH SWT knows the best). All this drama stared with him, i don't blam the ppl from somaliland. I mean if a parent give her/his child more attention, effort and love over his/her other child, the necleced child when he or her grows up would nothing to do with the parent right? Thats what happen between somalia n somaliland.
Siad Bare loved Somalia and was not tribalist but he had some twisted views. He considered those from the north unpatriotic including his own Marehan, he felt only Hawiye executed what he asked of them and supported him for the sake of Somalia. Daroods supported him because he was Darood and Isaaqis didn't like him because he was a Darood but Hawiye put their feelings beyond tribalism and were for Somalism.
And there's a reason for that. Hawiye people are naturally less tribalist than the other Somalis and secondly Aden Adde was one of them and he ruled the country fair and square and held democratic elections unseen in Africa.
So they were motivated and saw the fruits of Adden Adde and Mogadishu was enjoying a boom not seen in Africa and even many Middle East countries including this UAE.
Somalia had free healthcare and education then Afweyne came and just turned everything up side down because he had twisted socialist views.
In his mind, he though Somalia was the capital and the capital alone and that was his biggest mistake.
He didn't like Isaaq and Majerteen for the obvious reason, they both brag too much and want to rule or wanted democracy; he was the opposite. Ultimately it was the two that brought him down and the Hawiye he felt safe around, delivered the final nil on his coffin.
Siad Bare gave much freedom to women though but he killed all the religious scholars, today we would not have al Shabab if we had our old scholars.
My Isaaqis think Siad Bare picked on them because they had bigger brains than everyone else hahahaha….Siad was just protecting his rule like Silanyo, Silanyo is going to kill anyone who challenges his unrecognized rule and if he had jets, he would kill more people than Siad Bare.
I liked Siad Bare for somethings and I don't like him for some things. He was 1000X better than Silanyo and his unrecognized Council, no competition, Hargeisa used to see civil services under Siad Bare, it was a clean city even though Siad didn't want it to out shine Mogadishu and forced the wealthy Isaaqis to invest in Mogadishu.
Today they have freedom to invest, I don't see them out shining Mogadishu. It was all lies.
@Kayse
Siad Bare was 1000X better than Silanyo? Wow. You took your hate for Silanyo and his clan to another level.
Siad Bare loved Somali? What kind of love was that?
Women in politics will not change Somali men! No one will be change unless they are willing.
Siad barre didn't love no one but him self, if he could use you he would if not he would kill you. How can you trust a man who killed god knows how many ppl including his own flesh and blood son?
@ Somaliaqueen
I agree with you and by the way, women should get involve in the future of the nation so far men have failed leading the nation.
According to so and so they are nothing but chemicals and toxic, and they can change men at home so they cannot lead the nation. They turn men to al shabab etc.
I encourage some of the guys on this site to clean their hearts by prayers or otherwise seek for mental help. Then come back and talk about nation building.
May Allah help us all .
fifty seats were set a site for women The new parliament it’s too much Thirty will be enough.
since i was a child i lived & grew up among my adult sister, we never had no father, or uncle nor nothin just woman. my late older sister was the reason i rejected the somali women in england cuz most of the somali women in england were jilbab & they look freaking ugly & most of them are on benefit.
i respect somali woman but i wont respect those who disrespect themselves by proudly wearing afghan traditional dresses.
i totally agree that the TFG should give somali woman more to say cuz they have the knowledge and the power to lead somalia.
I agree. Somali men these days are nothing but qabilists, so there is a possiblity of peace and progress of Somalia if Somali women are given a chance to show the world that.
the pic on the top is what took me bk to somalia. i wished i was born in the late fifties where the somali culture was at its best. now days these somali woman are disgraceful with their jilba & burqa & queuing up in mosque to find a jamaican husband.
@Kayse
dny marry any somali woman who wears jilba they quite dangerous.
I for one would definitely support to see a strong Somali woman in Villa Somalia as the president of Somalia. When men fight, women heal the wounds, when they are wasting their life and their money on chewing qat, women work in commerce to eke out a living for their families, when the well is far, they fetch the water and when there is no firewood, they walk miles to fetch it on their backs. Without women, the Somali race would have perished.
Let us not only give women 30% quota but give them the lion share of running the affairs of our country. No country ever developed without giving equal opportunity to women. You can not bar more than fifty percent of your population from the political and economic life of the nation and yet expect to succeed.
@ puntlandgeezer
Looool no wonder there is no peace somalia, they don't have respect for the Deen forget about the humanbeen. Its not afgan dress, you have to learn more about your Deen walal before its to late.
"And tell the believing women to subdue their eyes, and maintain their chastity. They shall not reveal any parts of their bodies, except that which is necessary. They shall cover their chests, (with their Khimar) and shall not relax this code in the presence of other than their husbands, their fathers, the fathers of their husbands, their sons, the sons of their husbands, their brothers, the sons of their brothers, the sons of their sisters, other women, the male servants or employees whose sexual drive has been nullified, or the children who have not reached puberty. They shall not strike their feet when they walk in order to shake and reveal certain details of their bodies. All of you shall repent to GOD, O you believers, that you may succeed." 24:31
And before you say i am one of al shabab, i hate them more than you do. Killing innocent women en kids doesn't make you a muslim, it makes you a coward
@somaliiqueen. Can you go away!
Loooooool does the truth hurt, i am here to tell the truth ISLAM FIRST cultrue seconde take it or leave it simple as that.
women should have a part time sort of role in politics and all aspects of public life and spend most of their time doing their natural mother role as every woman must strive to have kids in line with islamic values
everytime I come to this Press all heard is Siad Barre this and that please could u let it go, he was not a perfect of course but he cared for the poor, sick and most importantly the orphan (don't forget ciyaalki kacanka), he also built homes for people on the streets, he supported poor villagers and made the most profound difference in terms of progress to Somalia and also wrote the somali script. however, there are many men that were better then this Dictator. like the SYL, Sayyid Abdulla Hassan and our 2 DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED Presidents Aden Adulle Osman & Abdirashid Ali Shermarke and holding on to power for 21yrs against the rule of Law is why we no longer have a country and some of u even ashamed to call urselves Somalis, imagine adding Earth and Land together and saying EarthLanders..well, somali-land doesnt make sense it means lands of somalis Mugadishu is somaliland, bosaso, lasnood, hargeisa, Dayniinle, Walawayn, baladwayne Garowe, Badhan and forth.
Khaatumo citizen..what was didn't work..let it go sis.The two principal de jure entities
Somaliland proper (Hargeisa) and Somalia proper (Mogadiscio) should be capable to find
the final resting peaceful solutions to end the sufferings of the civil societies populace of
Somalia and to also address the recognition quest of Somaliland. Let's see how the started
talks between Hargeisa and Mogadiscio would develop hopefully with permanent effective results.
Cheers.
that's what am saying dee what ever happened are in the past it is time to start fresh and look for the future.
@Somaliaqueen
well its so obvious your the one eyed jilbab woman sent by al shabaab terrorists from Afgoye so you can brainwash our woman from the north with your extremist salafism.
the Salafi ideology will never be accepted in somalia, the lost culture of somalia is being revived.
Any woman who wants to were jilbab will be deported to saudi arabia.
Loooool i am a mogadishu girl, i dnt even know where afgoye is. 99% of somalia is muslim and it says that way. Pyscopath ppl like you and al shabab will leave somalia alnone. I dnt think you are welcom is somaliland neither so do somalia n somaliland a favour and keep your christian rules to yiur self. YOU GET ME MATE!