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The Global Media Campaign

GMC trains, funds and supports activists to use key influencers like religious and community leaders on the media to End FGM. They are in charge – not us.

Together we have reached over 900 million people across Africa with unprecedented results.

1000 +

Media Graduates

Countries

2000 +

Media campaigns

How we work

1. Training

Free

Our campaigners in action live on Twitter

Global Media Campaign to End FGM Follow 7,966 11,715

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Its been two months since 13-year-old Fartun Hassan Ahmed bled to death after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM). Since this tragedy, her grieving father Hassan Ahmed Jimale has become an anti-FGM campaigner. https://t.co/fLSFrBWCbs

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Doctor, religious leader, activist, local authority and activist campaigning to #EndFGM in Hiraan, Hir Shabelle region, Somalia. @mtushiminina @GPtoEndFGM
https://t.co/7pPwEuI9Ty

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We at @GMCEndFGM, together with our partners, look forward to working with you @SimaBahous. Media continues to be one of the most important tools to #EndFGM, and the 1000+ grassroots activists we work with are charged and active!

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Radio shows broadcast to IDP camps in Somalia. #MediaToEndFGM @mtushiminina @GPtoEndFGM "I visited the IDP camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, where I made a brief report on the situation of children in the camp and FGM." Abdirahman Moalim, Somalia. https://t.co/G7Blu1JHB2

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Ouverture ce matin de l'académie médiatique de Global Media Campaign (GMC) en partenariat avec @ Plan Mali sur la Mutilation génitale féminine du 09 au 11 Septembre 2021, à Sikasso.

#StopMGF

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Excellent article on "The cost of oppressing women" in @TheEconomist
Key quote:
"Patriarchy & poverty go hand in hand ... it seems as if the surest way to curse one's nation is to subordinate its women"
#EndFGM
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@GPtoEndFGM @PlanGlobal @SoroptiTweet @HumanDignityT

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Fresh End FGM stories from Africa - https://t.co/gpLNo4j2cF

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Fresh End FGM stories from Africa - https://t.co/7faZcYDkxR

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We invited 5 people to take part in a program that was broadcast live on Hiranweyn Radio. The radio is listened to in all parts of Hirshabelle state ~Maryama Abdulle, Somalia.
https://t.co/wHKQducylJ

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The impact of FGM on Somali girls cannot be overstated ~ Adar Ali Mohamed
https://t.co/bswACqxguD

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I hosted a TV program that was attended by IDP camp leaders and religious leaders. The number of #FGM cases in the camps during the COVID-19 was high. https://t.co/vyQwmAL8Iu

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Let’s be clear: any type of harmful practice against a woman or a girl is gender-based #violence (GBV).

And it should never happen.

See what @UNFPA is doing to #EndGBV: https://t.co/voR9sx1GpC

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Fresh End FGM stories from Africa - https://t.co/kymw57PK1z

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Fresh End FGM stories from Africa - https://t.co/hFwMgU3VHF

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Causerie débat avec quelques jeunes de Faladié Sema (Bamako) sur Les MGF.
Il est important de communiquer avec la jeunesse car se sont les parents de demain.

@UAFAfrica

#MediaEndFGM
#StopMGF

Who are the Activists trained and funded by GMC?

Find out more about the 1000 + campaigners trained as media activists at GMC’s academies in 8 countries: Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Somalia, The Gambia, Ethiopia, Mali, and Guinea.

Campaigners' latest impact results

Media survey - Tana River, Kenya. (January 2021)

80%

Have heard our campaigns

91%

Understand the medical dangers

of FGM

97%

Changing minds about FGM

GMC Tana River, East Kenya, Impact Measurement Study (2019-2021)

Baseline impact study Mali – March 2021

Baseline impact study Nigeria – March 2021

Our Partners

Testimonials

"I am glad that we partner with the Global Media Campaign to reach out to local level campaigners to promote and amplify their work with Direct Action Media grants"

What the Global Media Campaign is doing is unprecedented - it’s new, it’s revolutionary and critically, it is on a huge scale. It could be the golden ticket to ending FGM.

As an academic who spent 30 years studying FGM interventions - the GMC campaign is the most impactful and effective I have ever come across