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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.
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.
As a model, Dirie was the first black woman to appear in an Oil of Olay advertisement. In 1987, Dirie played a minor role in the James Bond film The Living Daylights . In 1997, at the height of her modeling career, Dirie spoke publicly for the first time with the women's magazine Marie Claire about the FGM that she had undergone as a child, and ...
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]
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
Since 2014, Adan has worked for Save Somali Women and Children (SSWC) as a program manager and co-chair of the Gender Based Violence work group (GBV). [3] SSWC was founded in 1992 in Mogadishu by Somali women, whose goals were to create a non-profit organization that would support Somali girls and women who were marginalized and experiencing violence and poverty in their communities.
Somalian women's rights activists (17 P) Pages in category "Somalian feminists" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Somalian women by century (2 C) W. Women's organisations based in Somalia (1 C, 4 P) Women's rights in Somalia (3 C, 3 P) Pages in category "History of women in Somalia"