Ogaden News Agency - Novice

The hearing, whose topic is �Human Rights and Security Situation in Ogaden,� will be opened by Ms Ana Gomes MEP, who is chairing the event, and Mr. Marino Busdachin, General Secretary of UNPO. Mr. Abdullahi Mohamed, from African Rights Monitor, and Ms. Xasan Ruqiyo from the Ogaden Communities & Civil Society Association will be speaking on behalf of Ogaden.

Ogaden News Agency - Novice

The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) salutes the women of Ogaden in recognition of International Womens Day. The women of Ogaden, both civilian and those serving in the armed forces of the ONLF

Ogaden News Agency - Novice

The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) strongly condemns the unlawful arrest and illegal handover to Ethiopian regime authorities of Bishaaro Wa'adi Shaqlane a senior member of the Ogaden Womens Democratic Alliance (OWDA) and respected businesswoman who had been residing in Hargeisa in northern Somalia.

Ogaden News Agency - Novice

On February 10th 2010, family members and relatives of Ms. Bisharo Wa�di Shaqlane informed Ogaden Human Rights Committee about her arrest by members of Somaliland Police and Ethiopian Security Forces. Since then her fate and whereabouts are unknown to her family.

Ogaden News Agency - Novice

Human rights instruments provide protection against refoulement. The UN Convention against Torture, in Sub-article (l and 2) of Article 3 states that:

�1. No State Party shall expel, return (refouler) or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.

Ogaden News Agency - Novice

Ogadenis face a genocidal strategy devised at their prejudice by the TPLF dominated Ethiopian government under an undeclared martial law and journalists are effectively blocked from the region. Extrajudicial killings, arrests, extensive practice of torture, national denigration and religious denigrations carried out against Ogaden Somalis over many long decades alienated them completely from Ethiopian totalitarian state where they never felt they belong.

Ogaden News Agency - Novice

�Sexual violence against women is a crime against humanity� Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, on 6 March 2009.

Ogaden News Agency - Novice

It�s official! Today, Members of Congress introduced the groundbreaking International Violence Against
Women Act (I-VAWA)!
I-VAWA, which was introduced in the House and Senate last Congress, presents a critical opportunity for the United States to protect, defend, and empower the world�s women.

Ogaden News Agency - Novice

2 February 2010

As the heads of State of the African Union (AU) convene, the Ogaden
National Liberation Front (ONLF) wishes to note the continuing
suffering of the people of Ogaden at the hands of the host nation of
the ongoing AU summit.

Ogaden News Agency - Novice

( OLF - ONLF ) It is imperative that the oppressed peoples who are under the domination of dictatorship and tyranny will need solidarity and cooperation among themselves to release themselves from tyrannical rule imposed upon them. Unless we focused on the deception and intrigues fabricated by our enemy to create mistrust among our peoples, sow seeds of conflicts between them or create fear and hatred towards each other and exposed these wicked acts of the enemy the success of our struggle will fall under question.