{"id":19015,"date":"2026-03-28T23:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=19015"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:21:20","slug":"somalia-participates-in-igad-human-rights-institutions-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2026\/03\/28\/somalia-participates-in-igad-human-rights-institutions-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia participates in IGAD human rights institutions meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BISHOFTU &#8212;<\/strong> Recognizing that active international participation in human rights forums is the cornerstone for building national institutions capable of safeguarding human dignity, the Federal Republic of Somalia participated, for the first time, in the annual meeting of the Network of National Human Rights Institutions (NNHRIs) of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Bishoftu, Ethiopia, aimed at strengthening cooperation and expertise exchange across the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Somali delegation was led by H.E. Mohamed Harun Mahmoud, Vice Chairman of the Independent National Human Rights Commission (INHRC), where discussions focused on activating the regional network&#8217;s performance and approving its new action plan. The meeting witnessed the transition of the network&#8217;s presidency for the coming year from Ethiopia to Kenya, amidst regional consensus on supporting the independence of national institutions in member states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u200bThe Somali delegation presented a comprehensive brief on the country&#8217;s human rights situation, highlighting operational developments and concrete steps taken in restructuring the new National Commission in alignment with international standards. Officials emphasized that the UN resolution issued in October 2025, transferring human rights monitoring responsibilities to national authorities, marks a strategic shift in strengthening Somalia&#8217;s institutional and legal sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the sidelines, the Vice Chairman and Commissioner Ali Mohamed Ilmi held bilateral meetings with human rights representatives from Ethiopia and Kenya to discuss technical cooperation and ways to accelerate Somalia&#8217;s accession to the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions, ensuring an active Somali presence within the continental rights system and benefiting from available empowerment mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Participants emphasized the importance of integrating roles between national institutions and regional organizations to address current challenges. This Somali presence comes within the context of diplomatic and institutional efforts to restore Somalia&#8217;s leading role in regional and international organizations, demonstrating a serious commitment to promoting human rights as a fundamental pillar for stability and sustainable development across the continent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia&#8217;s engagement in this regional system reflects a firm political will to transition towards institutional maturity in the human rights sector. From the city of Bishoftu, a renewed Somali vision emerges, placing rights and freedoms at the heart of national building, affirming that respect for the individual is the shortest path to achieving social peace and lasting prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISHOFTU &#8212; Recognizing that active international participation in human rights forums is the cornerstone for building national institutions capable of safeguarding human dignity, the Federal Republic of Somalia participated, for the first time, in the annual meeting of the Network of National Human Rights Institutions (NNHRIs) of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Bishoftu, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-protection-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015","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=19015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19018,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015\/revisions\/19018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}