Edna Adan Ismail
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Edna Adan Ismail is a nurse midwife, activist, and was the first female Foreign Minister of Somaliland from 2003 to 2006.
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Ismail with her pet cheetah in 1968.
Edna Adan Maternity Hospital, Hargeisa
Edna Adan University, Hargeisa
Female genital mutilation
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Female genital mutilation is the cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva for non-medical reasons. FGM prevalence varies worldwide, but is significantly present in some countries of Africa, Asia
Edna Adan Ismail
…2006. She is the director and founder of the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa and an activist and pioneer in the struggle for the abolition of female genital mutilation. She is also President of the Organization for Victims of Torture. In March 2022, she became the president of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples…
Anti-FGM road sign near Kapchorwa, Uganda, 2004
Nilotic Samburu's female circumcision ceremony. Laikipia plateau, Kenya, 2004
Anatomy of the clitoris, showing the clitoral glans, clitoral crura, corpora cavernosa, vestibular bulbs, and vaginal and urethral openings
FGM awareness session run by the African Union Mission to Somalia at the Walalah Biylooley refugee camp, Mogadishu, 2014