Global Database on Violence against Women
Somalia
Prevalence Data on Different Forms of Violence against Women:
Lifetime Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence :Official National Statistics Not Available
Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in the last 12 months : Official National Statistics Not Available
Lifetime Non-Partner Sexual Violence : Official National Statistics Not Available
Child Marriage :35.5 % (1)
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting :99.2 % (2)
Reports submitted by UN Human Rights Bodies:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
Somalia Search Data
1 - 10 of 14 ResultsConference on Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting
Somalia | 2014
Type of Measure : Prevention > Awareness-raising /Campaigns
Form of Violence : Child, early and forced marriage
Article 29 of the Provisional Constitution
Somalia | 2012
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Constitutional provision
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Article 24 (5) of the Provisional Constitution
Somalia | 2012
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Constitutional provision
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Article 15 of the Provisional Constitution
Somalia | 2012
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Constitutional provision
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Somalia: International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting
Somalia | 2012
Type of Measure : Prevention > Awareness-raising /Campaigns
Form of Violence : Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)
Constitution (Prohibition of FGM)
Somalia | 2012
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Constitutional provision
Form of Violence : Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), Violence against women and girls
Article 14 of the Provisional Constitution
Somalia | 2012
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Constitutional provision
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Summary Preliminary Results Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2011, Somaliland (Early Marriage, Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting, and Domestic Violence)
Somalia | 2011
Type of Measure : Research and statistical data > Violence against women module in survey
Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence, Child, early and forced marriage, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)
Disarmament Celebration in Berbera (Community Leaders Renounce Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting)
Somalia | 2004
Type of Measure : Prevention > Awareness-raising /Campaigns
Form of Violence : Child, early and forced marriage
(1) Percentage of women aged 20 to 24 years who were first married or in union before age 18. Source: UNICEF global databases, 2021, based on DHS, MICS and other nationally representative surveys.
(2) Percentage of girls and women aged 15 to 49 years who have undergone FGM/C. Source: UNICEF global databases, 2021, based on DHS, MICS and other nationally representative surveys.
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