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To end FGM, donors must trust women working on the frontlines
Three countries with the highest prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) – Sierra Leone, Mali and Sudan – have yet to ban it. The harmful…
Justice eludes rape victims in Somalia’s Puntland – campaigners
Justice eludes rape victims in Somalia’s Puntland – campaigners Women and girls in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland who accuse police, army and marines of…
African women are ending FGM on the front lines
A few years ago I personally witnessed a girl bleed to death after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) here in Kenya. It was a harrowing…
2018 Update on Ending FGM
Read our 2018 Update on Ending FGM
Suspect freed after gang rape in Somalia
Suspect freed after gang rape in Somalia Last week we wrote to you about several women and girls who have been brutally raped and gang-raped…
Some Puntland policemen are raping women instead of helping to protect them
Some Puntland policemen are raping women instead of helping to protect them Just after 2am on January 10th a group of eight armed men invaded…
Rape, Underage Sex, Forced Marriage, Abuse. That’s the Plight of Too Many Afghan Girls
Sahar was only 10 years old when she was forced to marry an older man. Her father agreed to “trade” her in what is known…
The Doctor Who’s Saved 46,000 Congolese Women — and Isn’t Done Yet
When Dr. Denis Mukwege was still a child, his father, a pastor, would take him on pilgrimages to visit the sick in Bukavu, a city…
Your help to girls like 10 year old Sahar is invaluable!
I want you to know how much your generosity means. Sahar was only 10 when she was forced to marry an older man in Afghanistan.…
We risk our lives for peace
I was born in Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country fraught with security challenges and an unstable…
Human Rights Day
Shortly after World War 2 ended, on December 10th 1948, the world came together and agreed that human rights would never again be compromised. The…
We pressed pause the day we had to leave Syria. The shock never goes away
I am a medical doctor and a proud Syrian woman. I was born and grew up in Damascus. We stayed for as long as we…