Asha Haji Elmi

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Asha Haji Elmi

Asha Haji Elmi Amin (also written Asha Hagi Elmi ; * 1962 in Galguduud , Somalia ) is a Somali peace activist and women's rights activist.

biography

Asha Haji Elmi was born into an upper-middle class family and therefore had more opportunities than many other Somali women. She used this to study economics at the National University in Mogadishu as well as in Nairobi , Kenya , management and organizational development and business development. For a short time she worked in the Ministry of Finance, then in civil society.

After the outbreak of the Somali civil war , Asha Haji Elmi founded the organization Save the Somali Women and Children (SSWC) in 1992.

When peace negotiations for Somalia were under way in Arta (Djibouti) in 2000 , which largely concentrated on the five large Somali clans , Asha Haji Elmi co-founded the Sixth Clan women’s network to emphasize the importance of women as the “sixth clan” for the peace process . This was the first time that women were represented as a separate group at the peace talks; they had hardly been involved beforehand, as they traditionally do not play a political role within the clans. Asha Haji Elmi is herself married to a man from a rival clan, which her clan and that of her husband viewed with corresponding suspicion. Sixth Clan achieved, among other things, that 12% of the seats in Somalia's federal transitional parliament are reserved for women.

Asha Haji Elmi also campaigns against the widespread circumcision of girls in Somalia . She has been a member of the transitional parliament since August 29, 2004 until 2009. She was among the nominees for the 1000 Women Project for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize .

In 2008 Elmi received the Right Livelihood Award .

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SURNAME Elmi, Asha Haji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elmi Amin, Asha Haji (full name); Elmi, Asha Hagi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Somali peace activist and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Galguduud , Somalia