Ending a practice: Many organisations have funded programmes to help educate people about the risks and dangers of FGM in order to change people's opinions on this procedure which is seen by many as a cultural norm. - REUTERS
Young campaigners Fahma Mohamed and Jaha Dukureh have led the global debate on female genital mutilation (FGM).
IN February this year Fahma Mohamed was a 17-year-old student studying for her A-levels in Bristol, south-west England. One of nine girls from a British Somali family, she was, by her own account, not one for the spotlight. Over in Atlanta, Georgia, Jaha Dukureh, a 24-year-old woman originally from Gambia, was juggling a full-time job in a bank with motherhood.
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