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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.
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.
The name stems from the fact that traditionally Somalia's society is said to consist of five major clans. The "sixth clan" is the pan-Somali women's movement. The movement stems from the earlier organization founded by Asha Haji Elmi, Save Somali Women and Children (SSWC), and grew out of a group of women with cross-clan marriages.
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]
Women participated in society in a number of ways, such as female school enrollment, women in the workplace, women's participation in politics and the military, and all increased during the 1970s and the 1980s. [3] After the fall of the Barre regime in 1991, Islamic extremism effectively eliminated the legal rights of women in Somalia. [4]