About Us

Hawa Feminist Coalition was founded by young feminists all under the age of 35 in 2018 with aim of promoting the safety, equality, justice, rights and dignity of girls and young women in Somalia where women and girls bear an unequal brunt of hardships exacerbated by poverty, conflict, religious and cultural limitations which promotes strict male authority.

Our Vision

Somalia where gender equality is achieved and women and girls enjoy all their rights and live in dignity.

Our Mission

Mobilisation of Somali young women and girls for achievement of gender equality and the realisation of women’s and girls’ rights at all levels to enjoy all their rights and live in dignity.

We are coalition of young feminists all under the age of 35 all standing for promoting the safety, equality, justice, rights and dignity of girls and young women in Somalia.

JOIN US! If you are interesting to be part of collective feminist movement.

Member Groups / Clubs

Members

Collective Action & Feminist Movement Building

We mobilize and strengthen feminist based collective actions and practice meaningful ways of working with each other to be visible, strong and diverse enough to result in concrete and sustainable change in achieving gender equality in Somalia.

Leadership Development & Empowerment

We provide capacity development and empowerment for our members and feminist grassroots groups to build stronger grassroots movements with the confidence, information, skills and strategies they need to bring dramatic changes in norms, laws, policies and practices toward achieving gender equality in Somalia.

Advocacy & Awareness Rising

We use the influence of art, music, culture, poetry, social media, feminist activism to promote the safety, equality, justice, rights and dignity of girls, young women and other marginalized groups.

Engaging and building capacity, collaboration with young activists in Garowe

Mariam M. Hussein, a co-founder and member of Hawa Feminist Coalition provides brief training for some young activists in Garowe. Ms. Hussein met handful young activists; young women and men ...
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Statement On Appreciation of Puntland for Approval of Anti- Female Genital Mutilation Bill

We appreciate the cabinet of Puntland for approving the anti- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) bill as a key step towards a full ban on female genital mutilation in Puntland state ...
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The dead body of Nafisa Omar found in a cooking pot in Mogadishu

We are so saddened about tragic death of Nafiso Omar Gelle 12, who went on missing 3 days ago but found her dismembered and tortured body today in a big ...
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Statement: Hawa Feminist Coalition condemns Two Sisters Killed In Mogadishu

Hawa Feminist Coalition condemns the death of Fahdi Adow Abdi and Faiza Adow Abdi in Mogadishu in the night of April 22, 2021 after a mortar landed in their house ...
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Hawa Feminist Coalition advocates promotion of sex-disaggregated data in the event of commemoration of Open Data Day 2021

In commemoration of Open Data Day; an annual celebration event held all over the world in the first week of March in every year, Hawa Feminist Coalition organized an online ...
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Join us in promotion of sex-disaggregated data in the event of commemoration of Open Day 2021

Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data all over the world. Groups from around the world create local events on the day where they will use open ...
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