Faiza Jama Mohamed
/Overview
Faiza Jama Mohamed born Somalia November 12, 1958. Active in Somali women’s movements of the 1990s. Co-founded women’s organizations in Somalia promoting peace and gender equality, 1996. Director of Africa Regional Office of Equality Now Nairobi, 2000. Organized pan-African Solidarity for African Women’s Rights Coalition (SOAWR), which achieved Protocol of African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, 2004. Africa Prize Laureate of Hunger Project, 2008.
Quotations
“[W]e should focus not only on ending all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls in Kenya, but on being proactive about making the country a more just society for all.” (The Guardian, April 21, 2014; photo trust.org)