4. Child Rights in Somaliland

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Welcome to Episode 4 of Justice Studio Sessions. In this episode we will be discussing Children’s Rights in Somaliland. Justice Studio worked in Somaliland during 2014 and 2015 to develop their first Children's Rights Act. We were working for a taskforce led by the Somaliland Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MOLSA), UNICEF and Save the Children. The creation of the Act included consultations across the country with children, teachers, parents, elders and religious authorities.

During this project our colleague was the inspiring and impressive Guleid Ahmed Jama who joins us for this episode. Guleid is a Human Rights Lawyer and activist. He established and was Chair of the Human Rights Centre Somaliland from 2013 to 2019, and he's also just completed a PhD on children's rights in unrecognised States at Maastricht University in the Nethe ...