Acknowledgement

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

SAFDI Somalia Association female Disability is non-profit and non-governmental DPO disabled People Organization that operate in Somalia for protection and promotion the disability females in Somalia rights, livelihood, development and political participation.

We acknowledge the contribution of persons, groups and institution who made support the draft, collection, arrangement, publication and presentation of the FGM problems to the Somalia disabled female.

We also acknowledge all readers, users and publishers of this report in the future after presentation in public for the complementary work the report spread public to the all public and private intuitions

Thanks your time and interest the report

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Somalia is country in the Horn of the Africa with population of more than 15 million most of them youth. A country with traditional practises imbedded in the way of life and the social. Most of the people are nomadic in the far rural where there are clan and family based traditions abhorred in the society as noble.

The rights of the females with disabilities in Somalia is most neglected that has not been talked and raised ever in the public except view report that end in paper or report by the human rights and humanitarian working agencies. Disability people are estimated to be more than 15% of the population who have common problems for social, development and political participation in general.

The circumcised disability Girls suffer immediate and long term problems physical, emotional and mental. The parent spent money in the first that real long lasting infliction to the girl which may cause unpredictable after math to the victim person, family and society

The report was collected from twenty families Somalia mostly Benedir region the capital city of Somalia who were asked eleven questions tailored to get respond from the target victim related with cases of FGM by using open and closed questions. With target group the victims, members of their families and the practitioners

The problems found are Female persons with disabilities suffer the genital mutilation more prominently than non-disabled females. Majority of the disability females were circumcised with non-medical and medical practitioners. There are three kinds of circumcisions against the female persons mainly in the child hood between months to 12 year to the 18 year old in the adult.

Mobilization the community is the best to stop the FC against the female disability girls. Though identification of the problem and recommend the solution to the people from the member of the families, relatives, civil society ,traditional leaders, religious groups and member of the local authorities and federal state government and federal government of Somalia

1. INTRODUCTION

Somalia is country in the Horn of the Africa with population of more than 15 million most of them youth. A country with three decades of armed conflicts that destroyed that destroyed that public service and the infrastructure where the rule of the law was very weak for the protection in the country for nearly more than one decade intense clan rebels

Somalia is a country with traditional practises imbedded in the way of life and the social. Most of the people are nomadic in the far rural where there are clan and family based traditions abhorred in the society as noble. Beside the male juvies that monopolise the rights and the role of the females in their own way of life and decision making

The rights of the females with disabilities in Somalia is most neglected that has not been talked and raised ever in the public except view report that end in paper or report by the human rights and humanitarian working agencies. This made the female with disability the hidden victim in the society without public and private attention

Somalia is one of the countries that practice widely the FGM where every year tens thousands young girls circumcised by nonprofessional traditional craft persons and professional clinical practitioners. The practise is done both urban and non-urban although the size and the volume vary in more.

Disability people are estimated to be more than 15% of the population who have common problems for social, development and political participation in general the disabled people and in particularly the female disability who are more vulnerable and victim for human rights abuses and physical harassments like the female genital mutilations

Female persons with disabilities suffer the genital mutilation more prominently than nondisabled females. Majority of the disability females were circumcised with non-medical and medical practitioners where they acquire infliction more than their counterpart nondisabled females

Female genital mutilation is global phenomenal against the young girls in the less developing world mainly Africa, Asia and other places Europe and USA where great number of the girls in the population practise with unlawful traditional mutilation against the innocent young girls in respect of so called dignity and prestige of the family or clans which has no base other than stereotype from the old people in the ancient time.

The practice is wide in the country where the female disability are more risk to the mutilation without protection and prevention in the families and society. The girls with disability who physical weakness and deformation in the legs, hips and chest may face problem in the mutilation period that may cause bleeding, organ damage or death which are not counted

The victim who sustained disproportional mutilation that she may not sleep, stand, or walk puts her in painful ordeal that neither the family member nor relative can feel or understand soon in the first days or week.

2. OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the report is to collect more about the problems caused FGM to the disabled female in Somalia in the short time long time

 Collection all problems FGM to the disability females  Analyse and arrange the data to be information  Prepare report about the FGM to the disability females  Presentation the plight the disability females in Somalia  Identification the scale of the problem of FGM to the Disability Females  Raise awareness and advocacy for the protection of the disability females