March 27, 2018A Survivor Shares: When Female Genital Cutting Occurs, Childhood Ends and Trauma Begins** Please note the photo above is a stock photo and not a photo of the survivor. It […]
February 20, 2018By Educating Legislators Across the Nation, Alex Still Helps Protect Girls in the U.S. from FGMAHA Foundation: Alexandra Still is our Program and Policy Associate. Alex researches cultural practices that harm women and girls in […]
February 20, 2018AHA Foundation Campus Program Fellow Breaks Silence About FGM at Vassar CollegeOriginally published 2/20/2018 AHA Foundation Campus Program Fellow Breaks Silence About FGM at Vassar College Grace Roebuck is […]
December 12, 2017Dr. Mwangi-Powell Leads African Anti-FGM Initiative, Believes the Practice Can be Stopped in One GenerationDr. Faith Mwangi-Powell, MSc, Ph.D., is the Global Director for The Girl Generation, a ten-country social change communication […]
November 22, 2017Activist and Survivor of FGM, F.A. Cole, Refuses to be Silent About the Night She was MutilatedOriginally published on November 17, 2018 Activist and Survivor of FGM, F.A. Cole, Refuses to be Silent About […]
November 21, 2017Not Comfortable with How Female Genital Mutilation is Shown in Photos, A Swedish Photographer Applies a New ApproachElisabeth Ubbe is an award-winning photojournalist who strives to highlight issues that are taboo to create conversation and […]
August 23, 2017Survivor of Female Genital Mutilation Pleads to Other Parents to Have Mercy on Their GirlsIt is the recovery room in a hospital in Egypt. The girl is six or seven years old. […]
July 19, 2017American Psychotherapist Devotes Her Career to Helping Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Heal From TraumaOriginally published on 7/19/2017 American Psychotherapist Devotes Her Career to Helping Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Heal […]
July 19, 2017While His State Makes the News Due to Cases of Genital Mutilation, This Michigan Physician Argues for Cutting Off the Roots of the PracticeDr. Mohammed Arsiwala is a board certified internist who practices urgent care medicine in Southeast Michigan. He is […]
April 28, 2017Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Female genital mutilation and what we’re really talking about beneath the weasel words ‘genital cutting’Originally published by Fox News: 28 April, 2017 The recent news that a grand jury in Michigan has […]
December 13, 2016Khadija Gbla, Survivor of Female Genital Mutilation, Turned Her Anger with Injustice Into Action to Protect Girls at Risk of FGMSince she was only 13 years old, FGM survivor Khadija Gbla has been an outspoken advocate working to […]
July 20, 2016An Interview With Hilary Burrage: How She’s Fighting to Stop FGM in the UKHilary Burrage, British sociologist and author, on the fight against FGM: We must never, for one moment, be […]