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Isla – Kenya

April 5, 2019

Isla*, an 11-year-old rape survivor from Kenya, spoke to us about her experience of sexual violence.  “I was only ei...

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Grizelda – South Africa

December 2, 2018

Grizelda is a human trafficking and prostitution survivor who uses her experiences to inform and educate around the world. Sh...

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Leah – Tanzania

October 11, 2018

Leah was 11 when she discovered that she’d undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) as a baby, but it was years before she...

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Noor – Jordan

July 12, 2018

Noor had no reason to doubt her 55-year-old employer when he told her the pills he was giving her would help her headache. Bu...

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Martha – Tanzania

July 12, 2018

“In our culture, they say if you do not cut the girl, they will not stay with their husband,” says 59-year-old Martha fro...

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Adama – The Gambia

July 12, 2018

For Adama, the worst thing about being cut was the betrayal. Her own mother – the one person who was meant to protect h...

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Rebecca – UK

July 12, 2018

Rebecca was only six years old when a close family member began sexually abusing her. The abuse continued until she was 14, a...

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Loyia and Pofia – Uganda

May 15, 2018

How one mother and her family are breaking the cycle of child marriage in Uganda. Loyia, 37, knows all too well the human rig...

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Sophie – United Kingdom

July 31, 2017

Excerpt from ‘Trafficked – my story’, by Sophie Hayes Kas said, ‘there’s something you can do for me. There...