Images from Ogilvy and Mather London’s “It Happens Here” anti-FGM ad campaign. 6th February 2020 marked the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM. Despite Female genital mutilation being illegal in the European Union, as well as being...
Sign at the Phare Circus in Siem Reap. Photo: Ashley E. Remer Shout it from the rooftops, every street corner and down the valleys! LEAVE GIRLS ALONE! Stop aborting them (just because they are girls). Stop cutting out their genitalia! Don’t touch them in...
This headdress was worn by a Maasai girl less than fifty years ago. Native to southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, the Maasai are a semi-nomadic people, known for living alongside animals and an aversion to eating game and birds. Because of their lifestyle,...
Today is International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. The United Nations has sponsored this awareness day annually since 2003. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is the removal of all or some of the external female genitalia, including the removal of...
As the UN declared December 10th Human Rights Day, we thought we’d take a look at the rights of children and girls, and what the international¬†community is doing for them. In 1989, governments from around the world adopted the UN Convention on the...
