Ilwad Elman is a Somali-Canadian social activist. She works at the Elman Peace and Human Rights Center in Mogadishu alongside her mother Fartuun Adan, the NGO's founder.
Traditional practices that go hand in hand with gender-based violence is an issue that women human rights defenders have met with unified opposition.
To achieve success in creating more peaceful, just and inclusive societies, we must create a world, an environment where every girl can choose her future
I’m a fighter. I’m the kind of person that for better or worse runs towards a problem and tries to solve it even if it’s in a burning house.