Ilwad Elman
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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.
Quotes
[edit]- 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.
- 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
- The peace activist fighting for women’s rights in Somalia,Oct 22, 2020,NYU CIC
- 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.
- Over the years it has become very clear to me that a range of actors in Somali society want to sweep sexual and gender-based violence issues under the rug.
- Human rights, now more than ever, are very much on the political agenda in Somalia. However moving beyond the proverbial international commitments and declarations has not yet been realized.
- Human rights defender's story: Ilwad Elman from Somali,3 December 2013,2025 International Service for Human Rights
- 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.
- Changing The World According to Ilwad Elman,Published 3 years ago,Chanel Retief
- When considering how to engage and empower women for countering violent extremism, policy makers must understand the varied roles women play in this space.
- Ilwad Elman – Including youth is a priority,18 May 2016,By Kofi Annan Foundation
- There are a lot of young women now occupying spaces and challenging stereotypes every single day, from sport to technology to business to leadership, and all of this is necessary.
- And with more and more women present in these spaces, it is creating an atmosphere and acceptance for more to join as well.
- 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.
- [In Somalia] it’s considered weak or even ungrateful to ‘complain’ or speak of the trauma that one has encountered.
- Instead, people are encouraged to be thankful to have survived and are expected to simply move on
- The concept of mental health and wellbeing are not ones that are mainstreamed, and that's what we are trying to make a culture around – not just for beneficiaries of the different services and programmes that we offer but also for frontline workers
- A society that holds governments to account, and preaches and advocates for its own peace, is what gives me the most hope, and we're starting to see that.
- Peacebuilding is a long-term investment, and we’re just at the beginning
- Ilwad Elman: the woman paving the way to peace in Somali,Published on March 23, 2023 18:00. / Updated on April 03, 2023 by Pip Cook
- Peace is Possible when women have a Power
- They walked so I could run, and I will run so that the next generation of Somalis can soar.
- Legacy of Peace: How Ilwad Elman is Reshaping Somalia Inspired by Her Father,Aug 18, 2024,by Amina Alinor
