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We cannot end FGM without supporting survivors

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Africa, Development Debates, Female Genital Mutilation, Girls & Women, Health, Kenya, Other
Pictures of girls at Samburu Girls Foundation in Kenya

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

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: 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 …

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