(Photo by Britta Radike, Brussels, EuroNet FGM, 2009)
To see Khady and other African leaders campaigning to ban FGM during the UN General Assembly in the fall, see http://www.npwj.org/FGM/BAN-FGM-CAMPAIGN.html
Excerpt from the NPWJ BANFGM site: “A Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly banning female genital mutilation worldwide will be a pivotal moment in the fight to bring an end to the practice, providing the recognition that FGM is a violation of fundamental human rights. The gravity and the dimensions of this violation demand the attention of the international community as a whole and require that international measures be put in place to eliminate it.
A Resolution with an explicit ban on female genital mutilation will help to complete the shift of perspectives on FGM from a problem of ‘public health’ or a ‘cultural’ problem, to its universal recognition as a human rights violation and a form of violence against women.”
