Women's rights in Djibouti are a source of concern for various human rights organizations, both within Djibouti and without. While minority groups are represented at all levels of the government, they effectively have no power to alter legislation, due to the repressive nature of the regime.

If they are not livestock herders or fishermen, men work largely in the civil service, horticulture, corporate business, the military, and the port services. Women are active as lower civil servants and petty traders, mostly in the informal sector. The Relative Status of Women and Men.

Feb 8, 2024 · A Committee Expert said only 14 per cent of women in Djibouti had a bank account. It was harder for them to access traditional financial instruments, including credit and microfinance. How many sectors had legal and policy frameworks to guide gender equality?

The cultural context of Djibouti, dominated by patriarchal values, explains the top-down nature of policies designed to promote women, their poor economic and political underpinnings, the profile of women called upon to show female political leadership, and the structural and situational constraints at the root of women’s limited political ...

5.1 Women’s Participation in Decision-Making Bodies 38 5.2 Gender-Based Violence 39 5.3 The Issue of Refugees, Stateless Persons and Migrants 39 6. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 41 Annex 1: Human, economic and social assets 47 Annex 2: Women in Djibouti’s Senior Administration 58 Annex 3a: Main Texts …

Apr 25, 2024 · Djibouti has one the highest rates of female genital mutilation in the world, with more than 70 per cent of women aged between 15 and 49 put through the practice – although thanks to advocacy and legal initiatives, this has dropped in recent years from 93 per cent.

Africa. Globally, some progress on women’s rights has been achieved. In Djibouti, 6.5% of women aged 20–24 years old who were married or in a union before age 18. The adolescent birth rate is 21 per 1,000 women aged 15–19 as of 2011, up from 0.11 per 1,000 in 2010.

Apr 29, 2024 · Djibouti has one the highest rates of female genital mutilation in the world, with more than 70 percent of women aged between 15 and 49 put through the practice – although thanks to advocacy and legal initiatives, this has dropped in recent years from 93 percent.

Djiboutian women are making slow but sure progress in participating in public life, and although they are still under-represented, their presence is growing in the structures of political decision-making, and they are increasingly visible in local and regional government.

Oct 19, 2020 · Generally speaking, many inequalities exist between men and women in Djibouti. Men make up the vast majority of the national workforce. Women have a very low proportion of representation in government compared to men. Historically, the state permitted many forms of unjust treatment for women.