Choukri Houssein Djibah is a Djiboutian politician and women's equality activist.

Career

Djibah is the Director of Gender for the Ministry of Women and Family in

Djibouti Djibouti, ar, جيبوتي ', french: link=no, Djibouti, so, Jabuuti officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Re ...

. She has worked in consultation with other members of the government in Djibouti and the

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to develop programmes and support for gender justice in her country. She has campaigned for better living and working conditions for women in Djibouti, including calls for the ending of discrimination against women. She has been part of advisory boards providing recommendations for equality for women both for the government and for the UN. In 2011 she represented Djibouti at the

IGAD The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is an eight-country trade bloc in Africa. It includes governments from the Horn of Africa, Nile Valley and the African Great Lakes. It is headquartered in Djibouti. Member states ;Horn of Af ...

Women in Business conference. In May 2015 Djibah launched the project SIHA (Strategic Initiative for the Horn of Africa) designed to support and reinforce the economic capacity of women in Djibouti, funded with a grant from the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...

of 28 Million Djibouti francs. In 2019, research by the

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in conjunction with Djibah's ministry, showed that progress had been made towards gender equality but that women's education was 20% lower than that of men.

Controversy

Djibah gave up her 25% shareholding in the Horn of Africa Logistics and Trading Group, after public scrutiny.

References

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