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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.
Pages in category "Somalian actresses" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Yasmine Allas; B.
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.
Waris Dirie (Somali: Waris Diiriye; born 21 October 1965) is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist in the fight against female genital mutilation . From 1997 to 2003, she was a UN special ambassador against FGM.
IMDB - Somalia; Kaplan, Irving (1977). Area handbook for Somalia. U.S. Govt. Print. Off. Legum, Colin; John Gordon Stewart Drysdale (1976). Africa contemporary record, Volume 8. Africana Pub. Co. ISBN 0-86036-030-X. Ministry of Information and National Guidance (1974). Somalia: five years of revolutionary progress. Ministry of Information and ...
A Girl from Mogadishu is an Irish-Belgian film. It is a somewhat fictionalized story based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, who having escaped war-torn Somalia, emerged as one of the world’s foremost international activists against gender-based violence.
As a consequence, in 1963 Hajji Cagakombe's Miyi Iyo Magaalo ("The Countryside and the City" or "Town & Village"), a Somali-Italian co-production, was the country's first full-length feature film. 1960s-1970s
Ahmad was nominated by the US Ambassador to Somalia, Donald Yamamoto, [3] and she was awarded the International Women of Courage Award in 2021. [7] The award was presented virtually by the First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and the Secretary of State Antony Blinken on International Women's Day. [8] There were fourteen living women given awards that year.