# Faiza Jama Mohamed (Faa'isa Jaamac Maxamed)

> Faiza Jama Mohamed (born 1958): Somali campaigner, Africa Regional Director of Equality Now, advocate of the Maputo Protocol.

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## Who is she?

Faiza Jama Mohamed is a Somali women's rights activist and Africa Regional Director of Equality Now ([Wikipedia, Faiza Jama Mohamed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiza_Jama_Mohamed)). She has campaigned for the Maputo Protocol and against female genital mutilation (same source). See [female genital cutting](/en/society/female-genital-cutting/).

## Education

She holds an MBA from California State University, Fresno ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiza_Jama_Mohamed)). In 1998 she earned a human rights diploma from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (same source).

## Campaigning and writing

In 2004 she wrote editorials in *Pambazuka News* on the importance of the African Protocol on the Rights of Women ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiza_Jama_Mohamed)). She has also written for *The Guardian* (same source).

Her writing includes a chapter on the SOAWR campaign in *Breathing Life into the African Union Protocol on Women's Rights in Africa* (same source). With Brenda Kombo and Rainatou Sow she edited *Journey to Equality: 10 Years of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa* (Equality Now, 2013) (same source). She was interviewed by the [London](/en/diaspora/london/) School of Economics in 2017 ([LSE, "In Visibility: Faiza Mohamed"](https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/vaw/2017/01/26/in-visibility-faiza-mohamed/)).

## In short

A Somali campaigner who leads Equality Now's Africa office and has worked for the African protocol on women's rights.

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