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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.
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 Somali Football Federation also developed a women's football strategy, with plans to launch a dedicated women's league, along with regional and youth competitions. [ 21 ] In 2025, the participation of an under-17 women's club from Somalia in a regional tournament organized by CECAFA , marked the first time that a Somali women's team took ...
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.
The IIDA Women's Development Organisation NGO was founded in Mogadishu on 25 May 1991 by a group of Somali women activists led by the sisters Halima and Starlin Arush. [1] Halima Arush was a former education inspector whose husband had been killed during the civil war in Somalia. The organisation's aim was to create an interface organization ...
In 2001, the non-profit organization United Somali Women of Maine (USWM) was founded in Lewiston, seeking to promote the empowerment of Somali women and girls across the state. [15] The Somali Community Resource Center also provides English and citizenship classes among other services to Portland's resident Somalis, as does the Somali Cultural ...
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]
[1] a civil society organisation promoting peace building, women's empowerment and human rights in Somalia since 1991. Deqa served as Minister of Women and Human Rights Development of the Federal Republic of Somalia [2] between 2017 and 2020. In her capacity as minister, she, inter alia, led Somalia in the ratification process of the UN ...