Faiza Abdi Mohamed
HRD, Coordinator
National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders in Somalia (NCHRD-S)
Faiza Abdi Mohamed is the coordinator of the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders in Somalia (NCHRD-S), supported by DefendDefenders, the East and Horn of Africa human rights defenders project. The mission of NCHRD-S is to strengthen the capacity of HRDs to work effectively in the country and to reduce their vulnerability to the risk of persecution including advocating for a favorable legal and policy environment in Somalia/Somaliland.
Somalia remains a highly insecure environment for human rights defenders (HRDs), journalists and humanitarian workers, in spite of the optimism generated by advances in the fight against Al Shabaab, an Islamist armed group that has been fighting government forces for years.
