preventing violence against women

Violence against women and girls: change is in the air

Baroness Lindsay Northover, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development, 2 December 2014 - Africa, Girls & Women

If you were to ask me for a country that has undergone real change in the last quarter of a century, I would be hard pushed to think of a greater example than South Africa. I’ve been to South Africa …

We must stop violence before it starts

Lynne Featherstone, Ministerial Champion for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Overseas, 11 June 2014 - Girls & Women

Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread human rights abuses in the world. In the last few weeks alone there have been numerous high-profile reports of incidents where women have suffered because of their gender. World …

BBC’s Casualty shows female genital mutilation for what it is - violence against girls and women

Nimco Ali, 12 April 2013 - Development Debates, Female Genital Mutilation

In 2010, two British survivors of female genital mutilation (FGM) and I started a charity called Daughters of Eve in order to mainstream the issue and change how it is addressed. FGM has been a criminal offence in the UK since …

A UK led effort to end female genital cutting within a generation

Julia Lalla-Maharajh, CEO and founder of Orchid Project, 6 March 2013 - Development Debates, Female Genital Mutilation

...to have been in the room in New York yesterday, to be one of the first to hear this news. This year's CSW is not set up to be easy,...

Violence against women and girls: change is in the air

We must stop violence before it starts

BBC’s Casualty shows female genital mutilation for what it is - violence against girls and women

A UK led effort to end female genital cutting within a generation

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