Molly Melching

Molly Melching

female
Senegalese women's rights activist, Anna Lindh Humanitarian Prize, Thiès, genitalcutting, Human Rights, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign…Genital integrity activist
Molly Melching is the director of Tostan, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based in Thiès, Senegal. The results of Tostan’s work have been rec...
Khalid Adem

Khalid Adem

male, 34 years old
Muslim, American, clitoris, Landmark cases, genitalcutting, Human Rights
Khalid Adem (born 1975), an Ethiopian immigrant who was both the first person prosecuted and first person convicted for female genital cutting in...

Efua Dorkenoo

female
Feminist, ghanaian, genitalcutting
Efua Dorkenoo is a Ghanaian campaigner against female genital cutting. She was one of the founders of FORWARD - The Foundation for Women's Health,...
Fauziya Kassindja

Fauziya Kassindja

female
Refugee, legal case, Immigration Law, Togolese, Togo, genitalcutting
Fauziya Kassindja is a woman originally from Togo whose legal case made history in United States immigration law by establishing gender-based...

Pierre Foldès

male
surgeon, plastic surgeon, circumcision, surgery, genitalcutting, Jean-Antoine Robein
The French surgeon, of Hungarian origin, Pierre Foldès is the inventor, in collaboration with the urologist Jean-Antoine Robein, of a technique to r...