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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.
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]
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.
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.
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.
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.