Women who led
Faiza Jama Mohamed (Faa'isa Jaamac Maxamed)
Faiza Jama Mohamed (born 1958) is a Somali women's rights campaigner and Africa Regional Director of Equality Now. She has campaigned for the Maputo Protocol, the African Union protocol on the rights of women, and against female genital mutilation. She co-edited Journey to Equality, a 2013 review of ten years of the protocol.
Faiza Jama MohamedFaa'isa Jaamac Maxamed · Faiza Jama Mohammed
- Lived
- 1958 to today
- Known as one of
- Women who led
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 2 sources
Who is she?
Faiza Jama Mohamed is a Somali women's rights activist and Africa Regional Director of Equality Now (Wikipedia, Faiza Jama Mohamed). She has campaigned for the Maputo Protocol and against female genital mutilation (same source). See female genital cutting.
Education
She holds an MBA from California State University, Fresno (Wikipedia). 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). 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 School of Economics in 2017 (LSE, "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.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Faiza Jama Mohamed · en.wikipedia.org
- LSE, "In Visibility: Faiza Mohamed" · blogs.lse.ac.uk
Faiza Jama MohamedFaa'isa Jaamac Maxamed · Faiza Jama Mohammed
- Lived
- 1958 to today
- Known as one of
- Women who led
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 2 sources
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