{"id":16795,"date":"2025-05-24T22:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=16795"},"modified":"2025-05-25T11:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T11:21:33","slug":"somali-parliament-passes-bill-to-protect-idps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2025\/05\/24\/somali-parliament-passes-bill-to-protect-idps\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali parliament passes bill to protect IDPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212; <\/strong>Somalia\u2019s lower house of parliament has passed a landmark bill aimed at improving the protection and rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), lawmakers confirmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a session held earlier on Saturday, the House of the People of the Federal Parliament overwhelmingly approved the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Bill, with 136 members voting in favour, four against, and none abstaining.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The legislation, which seeks to establish a legal framework for the support and integration of IDPs across the country, marks a significant step toward addressing the needs of millions displaced by conflict, climate shocks, and insecurity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis bill represents our commitment to ensuring the dignity and rights of our displaced citizens,\u201d a parliament\u00a0leadership said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bill will now proceed to the Upper House for further consideration before being signed into law by the president of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: SMN\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/shabellemedia.com\/somali-parliament-passes-bill-to-protect-internally-displaced-persons-idps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\">view original<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; Somalia\u2019s lower house of parliament has passed a landmark bill aimed at improving the protection and rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), lawmakers confirmed. In a session held earlier on Saturday, the House of the People of the Federal Parliament overwhelmingly approved the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Bill, with 136 members voting in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-displacement-and-asylum","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16802,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16795\/revisions\/16802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}