It was important to lead an organization that was by people… - Jaha Dukureh

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It was important to lead an organization that was by people like us, who have lived experience and know how to tackle these issues in a respectful manner.

Jaha Dukureh

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Jaha Dukureh (born 1989 or 1990) is a Gambian women's right activist and anti-female genital mutilation campaigner. Dukureh was subjected to female genital mutilation in the Gambia when she was a little more than a week old. She is the founder and executive director of Safe Hands for Girls, an organization working to end FGM, and was the lead campaigner in The Guardian's End FGM Guardian Global Media Campaign

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This is a battle of women around the world—because you may not sound like me, you may not look like me, but what they are trying to do to our bodies is the same everywhere.

These issues are personal to me, they’re part of my life history. We won’t have equality until girls can grow up with control over their own bodies and futures.

They’re denying a lot of the pain that women and girls are going through, and just calling it Western influence.

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