STORY: CIVIL SOCIETY REVIEW HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN

SOMALIA
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DATELINE: 2015, MOGADISHU.
SHOT LIST
1. Wide shot, Civil and Human Rights meeting in progress
2. Med shot, Civil and Human Rights meeting in progress
3. Close up, Muna Abuagla, UNSOM Human Rights Officer
4. Med shot, Human Rights Officers in attendance
5. Med shot, Human Rights Officer translating.
6. Med shot, Human Rights Officers at the meeting
7. Close up, Mama Amina Haji Elmi, Chair - Save Somali
Women & Children(SSWC) addresses the meeting
8. Close up, An Official writes down important points
9. Close up, Points taken during the meeting
10. Med shot, Mama Amina Haji Elmi addresses the meeting
11. SOUNDBITE: Muna Abuagla, UNSOM Human Rights Officer
The Human Rights section facilitates the consultation but the
consultation is a Somali led process initiative made by the
Somali Civil Society Organization.
12. Wide shot, Civil and Human Rights meeting in progress
13. Med shot, officials discuss during the meeting
14. Med shot, officials discuss
15. Close up, Mama Amina Haji Elmi, Chair SSWC
16. Close up, Human Rights officer present
17. Close up, officials discuss at the meeting
18. Wide shot, Civil and Human Rights officials at the meeting
19. Med shot, Human Rights officials in attendance
20. SOUND BITE: Mama Amina Haji Elmi, Chair, SSWC

It is very important because we want to share our concerns

and our human rights evaluation with the rest of the world. It
is where we can reach as civil society organizations, who are
on the ground, we organized ourselves into six clusters, then
went to the ground level, shared and collected the
information. So we want to share the Somali situation with
the rest of the world, in order to get support and intervention
and in order to update the Somali situation concerning the
human rights is. So its very important for us and the rest of
the world.
21. Med shot, Officials discuss during the meeting
22. Close up, An official on her computer
23. Med shot, Officials discuss during the meeting
24. Med shot, Officials discuss during the meeting
25. Med shot, Officials discuss during the meeting
26. Close up, An official contributes to the discussion
27. SOUNDBITE: Abdulahi Hassan Hussein, Chairperson, Persons
with Disabilities in Somalia.
We have drafted a report that we collected amongst the
disabled people, the service providers, institutions,
organizations and schools. We have combined all issues
deeply concerning the rights of the persons with disability,
socially and politically. These were eleven articles that we
have compiled.
28. Wide shot, Civil and Human Rights meeting
29. Med shot, Officials discuss during the meeting
30. Med shot, Officials discuss during the meeting
31. Close up, An official listens in
32. Med shot, Abdulahi Hassan Hussein- Chair; Persons With
Disability in Somalia
33. Med shot, Officials discuss during the meeting
34. Close up, An official present at the meeting
35. Med shot, Officials discuss during the meeting
36. Med shot, Abdulahi and Officials discussing
37. Close up, An official contributes to the discussion
38. Wide shot, Meeting comes to and end.
STORY
At least 27 representatives from civil society organizations and
human rights activists in Somalia concluded a two-day consultative
workshop in Mogadishu on Tuesday, to review the human rights
situation in Somalia and draft a report for the United Nations Human
Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland

Somali civil society groups will submit their Universal Periodic

Review (UPR) to the Council in June this year while the Federal
Government will make their own submission in October 2015.
The UPR process periodically assesses the human rights situation in
the 193 UN member states. During the review process, the State
parties are mandated to present human rights reports for review
before the UN Human Rights Council.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is set to review Somalias
human rights situation in early 2016. The Council is responsible for
the global promotion and protection of human rights.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) is
supporting Somali civil society prepare their report, which covers
six thematic areas namely; women and childrens rights, rights of
persons with disabilities, media rights and freedom of expression,
civil and political rights, youth rights and humanitarian and
development rights.
UNSOMs Human Rights Officer Muna Abuagla says that at the end
of the consultative process, the civil society and human rights
activists will put together a report that will be submitted to the UN
Human Rights Council on 22 June, 2015.
Abuagla said, The UNSOM human rights section facilitates the
consultation; but the consultation process is a Somali-led initiative
by the Somali civil society organizations.
Mama Amina Hajj Elmi, the Executive Director of the nongovernmental organization, Save Somali Women and Children
(SSWC), described the civil societys participation in the upcoming
periodic review as important. She noted that the organizations play

an important role in securing the rights of the war-affected

populations in Somalia.
It is very important because we want to share our concerns and our
human rights evaluation with the rest of the world. It is where we
can reach as civil society organizations, who are on the ground, we
organized ourselves into six clusters, then went to the ground level,
shared and collected the information. So we want to share the
Somali situation with the rest of the world, in order to get support
and intervention and in order to update the Somali situation
concerning the human rights is. So its very important for us and the
rest of the world, she added.
The chairperson of the Horn Africa Disability Forum (HADF) Abdullahi
Hassan Husse also added his voice to the initiative saying, We have
drafted a report that we collected amongst the disabled people, the
service providers, institutions, organizations and schools. We have
combined all issues deeply concerning the rights of the persons with
disability, socially and politically. These were eleven articles that we
have compiled.
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