Multiple Discrimination Faced by Somali Women in Ethiopia and Somalia Highlighted at UN http://www.ogaden.com/hornnews/djibouti/1109-multiple-discrimination-faced-by-somali-women-in-ethiopia-and-somalia-highlighted-at-un.html

UNPO alongside the African Rights Monitor (ARM) convened an afternoon seminar to run parallel to the 55th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, convened in New York on March 1st 2011.The session, facilitated by Ms. Maggie Murphy, Programme Coordinator of UNPO, featured Ms. Huda Yusuf, ARM’s Executive Director who made a shocking exposé of the inequalities in health care, education, but who also gave an incredible account of the sense of impunity experienced by Ethiopian government or military officials accused of mass rape of and sexual violence against Somali women in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia. Despite the lodging of several complaints in recent years, perpetrators remained at large and no inquest into the accusations has taken place.