So if you want to change the world, you need to first know and search within yourself with deep humility, zero egos, and profound clarity. - Ilwad Elman

It's encouraging to see that women are fighting against so many different barriers to participate because they know what their participation means for other girls that are marginalised.

Traditional practices that go hand in hand with gender-based violence is an issue that women human rights defenders have met with unified opposition.

Women human rights defenders in Somalia are reprised against, threatened, unlawfully arrested, privy to sexual and gender-based violence, kidnapped and even killed as a result of their work.