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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.
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.
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. In 2002 she founded her own organization in Vienna, the Desert Flower Foundation.
Somalian women film directors (2 P) M. Somalian female models (8 P) P. Somalian women physicians (2 P) Somalian women in politics (5 C, 6 P) R. Somalian women radio ...
Saida Hagi-Dirie Herzi (born c. 1950) is a Somali feminist writer. Her English-language short stories, which use semi-autobiographical narratives and thinly veiled allegories to discuss social issues in her native Somalia , have been widely anthologized.
The African leaders refused to allow women to participate, but granted them observer status. Unsatisfied with that outcome, in 2000 Addou unsuccessfully tried to convince members within the UN system to support women's full participation. [9] By 2005, Addou was UNIFEM's Regional Peace and Security Adviser for East, Central and Southern Africa.
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