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 :45 % (1)
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting :98 % (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 15 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
Somalia: International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting
| 2012
Type of Measure : Prevention > Awareness-raising /Campaigns
Form of Violence : Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)
Administrative Data on Reported Cases of Sexual Violence in South Central and Mogadishu, Somalia
| 2012
Type of Measure : Administrative data > Justice
Form of Violence : Sexual violence
Article 14 of the Provisional Constitution
| 2012
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Constitutional provision
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
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
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, 2018, based on Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (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 2017, based on Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and other nationally representative surveys.
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