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About 97.9% of Somalia's women and girls underwent female genital mutilation in a 2005 study. This was at the time the world's highest prevalence rate of the procedure. [23] A UNICEF 2010 report reported that Somalia had the world's highest rate of Type III FGM, with 79% of all Somali women having undergone the procedure.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali [a] (Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali; born 13 November 1969) [1] is a Somalian-born Dutch-American writer, activist, conservative thinker and former politician. [2] [3] [4] She is a critic of Islam and advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women, opposing forced marriage, honour killing, child marriage, and female genital mutilation. [5]
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Somalian This category exists only as a container for other categories of Somalian women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
Later, in 2000, she founded and led the Somali Women Development Center (SWDC) in Mogadishu. [2] In 2005 she returned to university to gain a degree in International and Sharia Law at Somalia University. They support women who are on remand or on trial and the survivors of sexual violence. The SWDC also report on abuse and violence in Somalia.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: By occupation: Somalian This category exists only as a container for other categories of Somalian women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Somalian activists. It includes women activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
Rahma Bint Guliye, also Rahma Mohamed Guliye, is a politician and activist in the Federal Government of Somalia. [1] She is Hirshabelle State's Minister for Women and Human Rights, [2] and was the first Somalian MP to be elected from the Degodia clan. [3] Degodia Flag. Guliye was born in Mandera, Kenya. [4]
Hodan Addou is a Somalian international civil servant who has been engaged with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and its successor, UN Women in developing policies for women and women's empowerment since 1992.