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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.
Halima Aden. Halima Aden (Somali: Xaliima Aaden; born September 19, 1997) is an American fashion model. She is noted for being the first woman to wear a hijab in the Miss Minnesota USA 2016 pageant, where she was a semi-finalist. [2][3] Following her participation in the pageant, Halima received national attention and was signed to IMG Models. [4]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Lady Ferguson[a] (born 13 November 1969) [1] is a Somali -born Dutch-American writer, activist 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]
Somali Americans. Somali Americans are Americans of Somali ancestry. The first ethnic Somalis to arrive in the U.S. were sailors who came in the 1920s from British Somaliland. They were followed by students pursuing higher studies in the 1960s and 1970s, by the late 1970s through the late 1980s and early 1990s more Somalis arrived.
Eye color. Dark brown. Agency. New Version Model Management (Hernando) Munich Models (Munich) Modellink (Stockholm) [1] Fatima Siad (Somali: Faadumo Siyaad, Arabic: فاطمة سياد; born December 17, 1986) is a Somali fashion model. [2] Raised in Boston, Massachusetts, she was the last eliminated on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 10.
On July 24, 2020, the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift released her eighth studio album, Folklore, to critical and commercial success. [1] On November 25, Swift and the album's co-writers and co-producers, including the first-time collaborator Aaron Dessner, assembled at Long Pond Studio in Hudson Valley to film a concert documentary titled Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, which ...
Amanda Lindhout (born June 12, 1981) [ 1 ][ 2 ] is a Canadian humanitarian, public speaker and journalist. On August 23, 2008, she and members of her entourage were kidnapped by Islamist insurgents in southern Somalia. She was released 15 months later on November 25, 2009, [ 3 ] and has since embarked on a philanthropic career. [ 4 ]
t. e. Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision[a]) is the cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva for non-medical reasons. FGM prevalence varies worldwide, but is majorly present in some countries of Africa, Asia and Middle East, and within ...