Efua Dorkenoo

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Efua Dorkenoo is a Ghanaian campaigner against female genital cutting. She was one of the founders of FORWARD - The Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development. It began with a wider women's health agenda, but later concentrated on 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 prevention

[edit] External links

• Africa Database on her
• African Review of Books on "Cutting the Rose"
• FORWARD home page
• Efua Dorkenoo and others addressing the issue at the Scottish Parliament in 2004