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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.
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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.
Growing out of the Somali people's rich storytelling tradition, the first few feature-length Somali films and cinematic festivals emerged in the early 1960s, immediately after independence. Following the creation of the Somali Film Agency (SFA) regulatory body in 1975, the local film scene began to expand rapidly.
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.
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.
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