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"We have seen that more proactive actions from state actors happen when the country’s leader steps up and declares action against gender-based violence."
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Faiza Jama Mohamed
Faiza Jama Mohamed is a Somalian women's rights activist, Africa Regional Director of Equality Now. She has been a prominent campaigner for the Maputo Protocol, and against female genital mutilation.
"We have seen that more proactive actions from state actors happen when the country’s leader steps up and declares action against gender-based violence."
"Addressing gender-based violence should be the rule and not the exception."
"[W]e should focus not only on ending all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls in Kenya, but on being proactive about making the country a more just society for all."