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Deeqa Yasin or Deqa Yasin Hagi Yusuf is a Somali politician. In 2019 she became the Minister for women and human rights.
Life
In 1991 she was involved in both women's empowerment and human rights as the Operations Manager for the IIDA Women's Development Organisation.
Yasin came to notice as the Deputy Chair of the Federal Indirect Election Implementation Team (FIEIT). She was credited with her part of the its success during elections in Somalia. Under FEITs encouragement, a quartet of both the lower and upper houses of the Somalian parliament are women.
There is a school named after a former, and assassinated, Somali minister named Qamar Aden Ali. Yasin announced that is was to be renovated in November 2018.
Yasin became in 2019 the minister for women and for human rights. She sees this as a time of change for women as they will be able to participate in the first one-person one vote election in Somalia in 2020/2021.