End Female Genital Mutilation

A promise to remember

Dr Faith Mwangi-Powell, Global Director, The Girl Generation, 8 October 2015 - Africa, Female Genital Mutilation, Girls & Women, Health, Kenya, Other

Three years ago, recognising widespread human rights discrimination and violence against girls, the United Nations (UN) made a promise to observe the International Day of the Girl Child on 11 October, and the theme this year is the power of …

We cannot end FGM without supporting survivors

Leyla Hussein, psychotherapist and anti-FGM activist, 4 March 2015 - Africa, Development Debates, Female Genital Mutilation, Girls & Women, Health, Kenya, Other

We often associate FGM with the harmful physical effects suffered by more than 125 million women worldwide. There is much less awareness about the psychological effects that can haunt a woman throughout her lifetime. I know from experience that sometimes …

Born whole: being a woman in Sudan

Baroness Lindsay Northover, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development, 29 January 2015 - Africa, Female Genital Mutilation, Girls & Women

Small faces may look up at me equally quizzically as I visit a maternity hospital in Sudan. But from these first moments, the path for a girl is mapped out differently from that for a boy. And that has included the …

A promise to remember

We cannot end FGM without supporting survivors

Born whole: being a woman in Sudan

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