Shekosh Reports

Ogaden women are the backbone of our soceity, they work to fill any type of job available for them and they can hold any postion, they are the power of the family, they raise our children teach our people the mother tongue to communicate in the soceity. They are our mothers, sisters and wifes in every angle you look related to our life women of Ogaden are filled and they have deserved our people respects that our soceity can not pay back to them.
In many places of our country, there are some men who stil do not realise the respect and dignity of our women deserved. Those men are not yet recognised how our women are important some men have violated our women rights, those men are beat their wife, do not send to school their daughters because they believe that women do not need to educate while at last she will look after only children. At the time of the family dispute arise only men can reach the last decision whether they will continue to be a family or divorce. The women have no role for making decision for the family, they just rely on the decision of their husband.
Incase of the family dispute only men have decided to divorce his wife do not give her divorce setlement asst, she just gone lonley to her mother’s home without nothing. When their husban dismiss women are depressed and suffer, because they loss everything they had done for years wealth and children. Many of them are became mad and later died for that depression caused by their divorced husbands.

Many of our community still do not recognise the women violation in the Somali Ogaden Region, where  people are under Ethiopian occupation for years. There are no effective admisntration from Ethiopia except present of large number of milatry personnel these stay only punishment of the civilian and rape of women. People in the Region are practicing in muslim rules, but widely use traditional rules these are not in fever for females.

For the recently reports in the Somali Ogaden Region women violation are comited by the Ethiopian troops, who rape females indisciminately and then abuse. Many raped women are among refugee escaped from Ogaden Region living in Kenyan camps.