March 17, 2020

In Sri Lanka, FGM/C takes place amongst the Moor, Malay, and Bohra communities. There is little research available on the pre...

March 17, 2020

FGM/C is documented amongst the Malay community in Singapore, where it is known as ‘sunat’. The Malay community makes up ...

March 17, 2020

Whilst there is no nationally representative data on FGM/C prevalence in Iran, various studies surveying women and girls from...

March 17, 2020

In India, FGM/C is mainly prevalent in the Bohra community, with a 2018 study estimating 75% of daughters (aged 7 and above) ...

March 12, 2020

People know me as Madam K. I am 42 years old. I am a teacher by profession and love working with girls because I know how inv...

December 9, 2019

I like being called Favour because it has a divine meaning. I enjoy reading different books but really liked English, math, a...

December 9, 2019

My name is Admire and I am now 18 years old. I have two brothers and two sisters. My father and stepmother have always been b...

December 9, 2019

My friends call me Joyful. I just turned 18. I hope to become the first female pilot in Sierra Leone someday.  I co...

October 18, 2019

Having your period isn’t always straightforward. It can be annoying, even debilitatingly painful. But for some of the poore...

October 16, 2019

Beatrice came from a humble background. She dreamt of becoming a doctor. But when her parents separated and moved away, she h...

October 10, 2019

Salome lives in Tbilisi, Georgia. At 20, Salome was studying art at college, working as a tutor and content creator to suppo...

May 27, 2019

Growing up in an orthodox religious community in New York, Fraidy was 19 when her family pressured her into marrying an abusi...