Updates from english-speaking countries.
Christine Alfons is an anti-FGM campaigner who is passionate about ending gender-based violence and in particular FGM. Through radio talk shows she is offering callers a chance to understand their rights and where they can go for help.
Jeremiah Kutanya is an anti-FGM activist who works with youth groups. He is passionate about engaging male champions in the fight against FGM.
Sadia Hussein is an anti-FGM campaigner and FGM survivor, who spoke out on TV in March following the court ruling that reclaims that FGM is illegal.
Both Dominic Kimitta and Peter Macharia passionately report on the radio how far the FGM fight has come and that there is no time to turn back now.
Zeituna Shandey is an anti-FGM campaigner. In this report, she describes what the laws are around FGM and how survivors are needed to share with girls that it is their choice to stand against FGM and not put up with peer pressure.
Anti-FGM campaigners Raymond Sikamoi and Domtila Chesang discuss the laws against FGM, speaking about how it's a human rights issue and therefore is illegal.
Bus Radio Talk Show in Kenya, held a one-hour discussion on the radio to highlight that more is needed to be done to help stop FGM in Kenya.
The President's wife however has said publicly that the ceremonial circumcision of girls by the influential Bondo society (secret society of circumcisers) should end.
On Wednesday, 17th March 2021, a case filed at the High Court in Kenya attempting to legalize Female Genital Mutilation was coming up for mention. Given that female genital mutilation…
Busayo Soyebo held a very interesting radio show which reached over 1,000,000 listeners directly. Callers asked questions that highlighted that more needs to be done to communicate to the wider population: an uncut girl is a healthy girl and is able to be a part of society without bearing the everlasting effects and pains of FGM.