Promoting Children’s Rights in Somalia

Protection covers a wide range of activities that are aimed at ensuring respect for the rights of all individuals, regardless of their age, gender or social, ethnic, national, religious or other background, in accordance with the relevant bodies of law (e.g. human rights law, international humanitarian law and refugee law).

Our Child protection program aims to provide a coherent, coordinated, accountable, and comprehensive response to the protection & needs of children.

Children in Somalia are consistently unable to enjoy fulfilment of their rights due to the severely difficult context in which they live. Children are vulnerable to serious risks which undermine their safeguarding including: forced displacement, access to education, recruitment as child soldiers, sexual abuse, marriage and child labour.

Our child protection program focus on the following key areas:

• Right to education.
• Right to health.
• Right to water and a healthy environment.
• Right to identity