Women In Somalia

“Somalia is one of the world's worst places to be a woman, according to a recent survey by Trust Law, a project of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.” As stated in World Policy in Somalia, there has been an increase in sexual violence since June, more and more women are being raped while trying to leave their refugee camps. These women have been abused,raped,tortured, and are being treated as if they are second class citizens for years in Somalia. As the years go by the worse it becomes women live in fear for their lives due to the fact that they have no rights . Nafida was a widowed mother who had left her hut in search for food and had returned home and walked in her 11 year old daughter getting raped, but she had been torn away from her daughter
Women and young girls have arranged marriages. As referred to in Prevent Forced Marriage 46.3% of girls in Somalia are married before turning 18. If the woman decides to get a divorce she would have to give up custody of her children, property, and financial settlements from the marriage. These women have no say in anything they have to go with how their society is built. Why should they live in such a world of abuse, cruelty?. They aren’t treated equally as they should be compared to the men. If a woman or girl is raped, they are forced to marry their rapist if they refuse to they receive consequences from their family and clan. As for women who are in a nomadic community they are cast out of their community. In Somalia only 15% of girls go to primary school and 8% of girls attend secondary school. There being stripped of their innocence and their right to an education in order to adapt to their
As claimed in Huffingtonpost 95% of girls undergo genital mutilation in Somalia and it has one of the highest Genital mutilation in the world. Genital mutilation can cause bacterial infections, infertility, and urinary tract infections, the young girls are being cut without any anesthetic. Leyla Hussein a British woman who was from Somalia told her story of how she went through genital mutilation she had spoken on how she was only a young child when she went through the operation. “ I was just seven years old when I was cut. The first thing I heard was my sister screaming. Then it was my turn. Four women held me down while they cut my clitoris. The pain was so intense -- I blacked out.” This young women Leyla was genitally mutilated at only seven years old no child should have to go through that pain especially at seven. Theres also, girls as young as five years old that are being raped and their parents can’t do anything. In Somalia it's considered a crime for you to report your rape. Even after being raped the girls are still ashamed and did not even discuss it they didn’t think of it as an issue. Why should these girls be treated with such little respect there not objects there people. According to Huffington Post a 19 year old Somali woman was arrested for reporting her rape. “ A 19 year old Somali woman was sentenced for a six month jail term Monday for reporting her rape to a