Salma Zulfiqar
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Salma Zulfiqar is a Communications Specialist and Film Maker who has worked for the United Nations (United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS), Albany Associates, UNICEF and UNIRINnews in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Save the Children UK. She has also worked for leading media organisations such as the BBC World Service and Associated Press Television News (APTN).

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Profile of a Peacemaker - Zahra Ugaas Farah

(0) Comments | Posted 8 March 2013 | (07:11)

Zahra Ugaas Farah says her mission in life is to champion women's rights in Somalia to promote peace. When war broke out in the early 1990s, Zahra says she could not watch the unfolding chaos and bloodshed without taking action. In 1992, she established an NGO in Mogadishu called the...

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Calling for Equality in the Somali Police force - Meet Captain Asha

(0) Comments | Posted 2 November 2012 | (20:06)

By Salma Zulfiqar and Gihan Eltom - Communications Officer for UNPOS.

In 1979, newly recruited policewoman, Asha Hassan Hussein, was the first female to ride a police motorcycle to patrol the streets of Mogadishu.

Three decades later in a nation devastated by conflict, now - Captain Asha specialises in...

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Shaping Somalia's Political Landscape: Halima Ismail Ibrahim - Co-Chair Technical Selection Committee

(0) Comments | Posted 19 September 2012 | (14:18)

At the age of 15 Halima Ismail Ibrahim was already advocating for women's rights at her high school in Afgoye, 30 km from Mogadishu.

With or without a functioning state, as a passionate and committed human rights activist and recently appointed the Co-Chair of the Technical Selection Committee (TSC), Halima...

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