Somali educator of uprooted women wins UN refugee award
GENEVA: Hawa Aden Mohamed, a former Somali refugee who has created an education programme for displaced and often sexually abused women and girls, was awarded Tuesday the UN refugee agency’s annual Nansen prize.
Mohamed, born in 1949, was given the prestigious award for “her exceptional, tireless and inspiring humanitarian work for Somalia’s refugee and displaced girls and women,” the UNHCR said in a statement.
The former
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