The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Mahamat Saleh Annadif, gives an interview to media on the first day of a workshop in the Ugandan capital Kampala to draft Somalia's national gender policy designed to explore and develop gender-sensitive policy whilst providing a framework to the government that will encourage and enforce gender equality. The Federal Government of Somalia supported by AMISOM civilian component will be drafting its first National Gender Policy which will aim to eradicate gender inequality, empower women


The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Mahamat Saleh Annadif, gives an interview to media on the first day of a workshop in the Ugandan capital Kampala to draft Somalia's national gender policy designed to explore and develop gender-sensitive policy whilst providing a framework to the government that will encourage and enforce gender equality. The Federal Government of Somalia supported by AMISOM civilian component will be drafting its first National Gender Policy which will aim to eradicate gender inequality, empower women and benefit all people of Somalia. The workshop facilitated by the mission's civilian component, will bring together politicians from the Somali Federal Government, Somalia Directorate of Women and Social Affairs, Somali women’s rights activists and NGOs, female peacekeepers from the AMISOM military and police components as well as the African Union Gender Directorate. Photo taken 12 June, 2013. AU-UN IST PHOTO / ISAAC KASAMANI.


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