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I am busy with today. No longer in that post, she is now one of a small number of female members of parliament. The threats she laughs off come from al-Shabab, the hardline rebel group. It has a two-fold vendetta against female politicians: It is waging war against all members of the Somali government, and its extreme reading of Islam prohibits any female participation in the public sphere. Somalia is broadly considered to be one of the worst places in the world to be a woman — a situation that predates the presence of Islamic extremism. Rape and domestic violence are endemic, while women have been almost entirely excluded from political and judicial structures in the country. The collapse of the state led to an emphasis on customary law and sharia law, and a reliance on clan-based political representation.
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Stahil, a homeless Somali refugee in Jakarta prepares to pray in a boarding house. Facebook Twitter. Somalia refugee women sit at the Mosque of al-Barokah in Jakarta for safety at night. Like many refugee women smuggled from their country to Indonesia after al-Shabaab militants raped them or murdered their family, they have fallen through the aid safety net and live on the street.
Safia Ibrahim's business was in trouble. The year-old widow with 10 children to support set out door to door on the capital's outskirts, a razor at hand, taking advantage of the lockdown to seek work with a question: Have your daughters been cut? Her business is female circumcision, learned at the age of 15, performed hundreds of times and now being passed along to her daughters.
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