- Efua Dorkenoo
Efua Dorkenoo is a
Ghana ian campaigner againstfemale genital cutting . She was one of the founders of [http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/ FORWARD] - The Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development. It began with a wider women's health agenda, but later concentrated on [http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/key-issues/fgm Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)] (as they deem it) because of the opportunity the organisation gave for pushing the issue in the West. She is perhaps best known for writing Cutting the Rose – Female genital mutilation: the practice and its preventionExternal links
* [http://www.africanreviewofbooks.com/100best/100bestsamples/dorkenoo.html African Review of Books on "Cutting the Rose"]
* [http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/ FORWARD home page]
* [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/equal/or-04/eo04-1902.htm Efua Dorkenoo and others addressing the issue at the Scottish Parliament in 2004]
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