Every day, a staggering 121 women (Scientific Reports, 2023) die from complications linked to FGM, often during childbirth. Approximately 44,000 women and 20,000 babies suffer FGM-related deaths annually (WHO, 2006).…
The fight to end FGM is often discussed through laws, policies, and awareness campaigns. Yet for frontline organisations working in remote and high-risk communities, one major challenge remains: access to…
Across Sierra Leone and Liberia, the Bondo and Sande secret women’s societies remain among the most influential traditional institutions shaping the lives of women and girls. To outsiders, the societies…
“My daughter is my only paycheck.” That is what one father told Domtila Chesang, a women’s rights activist leading the frontline anti-FGM fight in drought-hit West Pokot, Kenya, after losing…
In Wajir County, where Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and child marriage continue to place girls at risk, survivor and grassroots activist Katra Mowlid Haji is leading efforts to challenge harmful…
Three in-depth baseline and endline studies are being carried out to measure the impact of the Born Perfect Caravans in shifting attitudes towards FGM across Somalia and the Somali regions…
The German government has once again stepped in to support frontline women’s organisations working to end FGM in some of the hardest-hit regions of East Africa - including Wajir in…