Rakiya omaar biography
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Rakiya Omaar
Rakiya Omaar was kicked out of her director’s job at Africa Watch, the US-controlled human rights organization, for saying the US ‘rescue mission’ to her native Somalia was doing more harm than good." In the same New Internationalist story she notes that "As director of the human rights group Africa Watch for four-and- half years, with special responsibility for research in Somalia, I had been immersed in chronicling Somalia’s nightmares and the cruelties that awaited even those who managed to escape abroad." The story ends by noting that "Since leaving Africa Watch, Rakiya Omaar has become co-director of a new London-based human rights organization called African Rights." [1]
"On December third [1992], the prominent international human rights group, Human Rights Watch, fired the executive director of its Africa Watch program. Rakiya Omaar, a Somali native and Africa Watch founder, was dismissed “for insubordination and failure to abide by our internal pro
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Rageh Omaar
Somali-born reporter and writer
Rageh Omaar (; Somali: Raage Oomaar; Arabic: راجح اومار; born 19 July 1967) is a Somali-born British journalist and writer. He was a BBC world affairs correspondent, where he made his name reporting from Iraq. In September 2006, he moved to a new post at Al Jazeera English, where he presented the nightly weekday documentary series Witness until January 2010. The Rageh Omaar Report, first aired in February 2010, is a one-hour, monthly investigative documentary in which he reports on international current affairs stories. From January 2013, he became a special correspondent and presenter for ITV News, reporting on a broad range of news stories, as well as producing special in-depth reports from around the UK and further afield. A year after his appointment, Omaar was promoted to international affairs editor for ITV News. Since October 2015, alongside his duties as international affairs editor, he has been a deputy newscaster of
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Nowadays in Africa, it is easier to attract overseas aid for projects that address ‘the concerns of women’ than it is to fund almost any other kind of initiative. Most donors want to know in detail how any allocation will benefit women specifically. What Women Do in Wartime includes contributions from several women’s groups which have sprung up on the continent as a result of this turn of events. Most, like the Women’s Commission of the Human Rights League of Chad, are advocates on behalf of women in war-torn nations, or nations which have only recently emerged from conflict. The argument that is held to justify the existence of these groups is that women have been so completely marginalised, and their problems are so specific, that they require special measures. The trouble with this ‘gendered’ approach is that it discourages any analysis of the ways in which the experiences of men, women and children overlap and intersect – a fact which