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Meet Aida Muhammad Ahmad Sultan, an activist and organiser in Taiz, Yemen, who after joining a peacebuilding project in her neighbourhood went on to create a new collective, Aswar Initiative for Peace and Development, inspired by the changes she saw.
30 September 2020
Women and youth in Rudaki district, Tajikistan face many challenges and threats to their security – including violence at home. As part of Saferworld and our partner Jahon’s support to community policing partnership teams, we have provided a small grant for the team in Rudaki to open a psychological and legal counselling centre. This centre will help in addressing domestic violence issues in the community and preventing further conflict from happening.
8 September 2020
Uzbekistan’s long and fraught history of corruption and abuse of power since independence has led to widespread public mistrust of the police. Saferworld has worked with civil society partner Istiqlol Avlodi to pilot a community policing and community security approach as part of the country’s ongoing efforts to reform the police.
5 August 2020
The city of Baidoa in south-west Somalia has experienced significant instability and change over the last 30 years. We spoke to community members in Baidoa about their experiences and the work they are doing to rebuild a fractured society and create sustainable peace.
22 July 2020
In Gok-Machar, South Sudan, community action groups have bought young people, communities, and authorities together to address entrenched tensions, with positive results.
9 July 2020
Peacebuilding organisations are at the heart of the response to the COVID-19 in South Sudan. We spoke to our partners, Church and Development and the Organisation for Children’s Harmony, about how they are raising awareness of the pandemic and continuing to work with communities on safety and security concerns.
23 June 2020
We spoke with Muhammadnasim, a 20 year-old student and youth activist from Tajikistan, about how he is working to address some of the issues that young people face in his community.
7 May 2020
Basundhara Gaire, a mother and a women’s rights activist, works to support women in Nepal. She visits Dalit women and women of other minorities daily, and supports them to be self-dependent through education.
1 May 2020
Community leader Sebit Khamis Marjan - who is blind - is helping communities bring peace to South Sudan’s second-biggest city, as well as championing rights for people with disabilities. “I may not ‘see’ all of you and your problems, but I have the vision to resolve them.”
30 March 2020
Gender-based violence, including domestic and intimate partner violence, is rarely discussed in traditional and patriarchal communities in Kyrgyzstan. Baatyrzhan Giazov is an imam who has been working with his community in Osh to change this.
19 March 2020