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Ending female genital cutting in our lifetime

Posted by: Julia Lalla-Maharajh, CEO and founder of Orchid Project, Posted on: 13 February 2015 - Categories: Development Debates, Female Genital Mutilation, Girls & Women
A declaration being read at the abandonment ceremony in Mali last year. Picture: Orchid Project

...to help other women who wanted to abandon this too, but I didn’t know how.” “Then Tostan came to my village, and together we studied different human rights that we...

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