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Fartuun Adan
Fartuun Abdisalaan Adan is a Somali social activist. She is the executive director of the Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre, a Mogadishu based organization that works on peace building and protecting and empowering marginalized groups. She is also the co-founder of Sister Somalia, which is Somali's first rape crisis and support program for survivors of gender-based violence.
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business · Somali social activist · entrepreneur · human rights defender · activist · also Fartuun Adan, Fartuun Abdisalaan Adan, Fartuun Aadan, فارتون آدن, Adan
Born 1969 · Q15733755
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We train [the kids in our] schools for plumbing, electricity, office management, secretarial, construction. Not a lot of people have these skills.
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2026· 3 entries
“We train [the kids in our] schools for plumbing, electricity, office management, secretarial, construction. Not a lot of people have these skills.”
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“s story. At a time when militias were using child soldiers, she says,”
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2022· 2 entries
Awarded Right Livelihood Award (2022).
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Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman received the Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the "Alternative Nobel Prize," "for promoting peace, demilitarization and human rights in Somalia in the face of terrorism and gender
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2020· 3 entries
PanARMENIAN.Net: 2020 Aurora Prize awarded to Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman
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Armenpress: Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman from Somalia named 2020 Aurora Prize Laureates
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The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative named them Aurora Prize Laureates, citing their work with survivors of war and sexual based violence and their commitment to grassroots peace building in Somalia
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2019· 1 entry
Local authorities confirmed her daughter Almaas Elman, who had also returned to Somalia as an aid worker, had been shot and killed in a car, near the Mogadishu airport
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2017· 1 entry
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2014· 2 entries
AllAfrica.com: Somalia: Fartuun Adan of Elman Rights Organization Gets More Recognition
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Also received an award from the government of Germany for her work with the Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded International Women of Courage Award (2013).
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A human rights award from the German government in 2014, the Gleitsman International Activist Award from Harvard Kennedy School in 2015, the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity in 2020, and the Right Livelihood Award in
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Fartuun Adan was presented an International Women of Courage Award from the United States Department of State "for her work as a champion of human rights and the elimination of sexual and gender-based violence in Somalia
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2007· 1 entry
Returned to Somalia to advocate for peace and human rights and to revive the organization that would become the current day Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre
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1999· 1 entry
Fartuun Adan emigrated to Canada in 1999, settling in Ottawa.
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1996· 2 entries
Human rights organizations and later profiles in Somali diaspora media recount the 1996 assassination and its impact on the family marking it as turning point that pushed Adan into a more public role as a defender of peace and human rights.
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During the height of the Somali Civil War, Adan's husband was killed near the family's home in southern Mogadishu
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1969· 1 entry
Born 1969.
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