My 3-and-a-half-year-old son sleeps. He slumbers peacefully in dreamland. When I hear him call my name, I go to him. He can trust that I am here. Another little one — just a year older than my son — slumbers … Read More
BY AMY WRIGHT GLENN PhillyVoice Contributor It took over 70 years of determined, dogged and dedicated effort to gain the right for women to vote in the United States. Seventy years. The women and men who initially campaigned for universal … Read More
Gambia: UN Women Partners with GAMCOTRAP in the Campaign to End FGM in the Baddibus Foroyaa Newspaper, Apr. 2, 2015 Also available on the allAfrica website GAMCOTRAP has launched a two-year project with two hundred community leaders in Lower and … Read More
Meet the amazing woman running a safe house for girls fleeing FGM Radhika Sanghani The Telegraph, Apr., 2, 2015 Also available on the Telegraph website Rhobi Samwelly is the founder of a safe house in Mugumun for girls fleeing FGM … Read More
Week-long Washington, D.C. Event Protests Circumcision Jordan Gass-Pooré infoZine, Mar. 31, 2015 Also available on the infoZine website Passersby eyed an anatomically correct male doll fastened to a plastic contraption Thursday on the West Lawn of the Capitol. Christina Love, … Read More
Saving teen girls from early marriage—and mutilation Emily Johnson America Abroad Media, Mar. 31, 2015 Also available on the PRI website Female students at the Glory Learning Centre in Nairobi’s Tassia slum talk about sex, boys, and their bodies in … Read More
Tanzanian children to benefit from FGM education at school International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Mar. 30, 2015 Also available on the FIGO website Special clubs educating children about female genital mutilation (FGM) have been set up in public schools … Read More
5/5 (1) Kenya: Tangi Tatu the Village Where Men Are Saying No to FGM Joyce Chimbi The Star, Mar. 30, 2015 Also available on the allAfrica website In the far-flung remote village in Moi Ndabi, Naivasha Sub County, the unthinkable … Read More
“If they mutilate my granddaughter? I’ll kill them.” Meet the Iraqi village ending FGM Sofia Barbarani The Telegraph, Mar. 4, 2015 Available on the Telegraph website Amirah vividly recalls the day she was taken into a bathroom by the … Read More
Licensed doctors perform 76% of Egypt’s FGM: Health Ministry Hanan Fayed The Cairo Post, Mar. 2, 2015 Also available on the Cairo Post website CAIRO: Some 76 percent of girls undergo female genital mutilation at the hands of licensed doctors, … Read More