Efua Dorkenoo

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Efua Dorkenoo, OBE is a Ghanaian campaigner against female genital mutilation (FGM). She was one of the founders in 1983 of the Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development (FORWARD), a British charity that supports women who have experienced FGM. Dorkenoo is the author of Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation (1996). She is currently Advocacy Director of the FGM Programme for Equality Now, an international human rights organisation.

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Issues	Female genital mutilation Clitoridectomy Dysmenorrhea Dyspareunia Female circumcision controversy (Kenya, 1929–1932) Gishiri cutting Infibulation Keloid scars Pelvic inflammatory disease Prevalence of female genital mutilation by country Rectovaginal fistula Vesicovaginal fistula

People	Ayaan Hirsi Ali Janice Boddy Waris Dirie Efua Dorkenoo Ellen Gruenbaum Fran Hosken Stanlie James Gerry Mackie Molly Melching Layli Miller-Muro Comfort Momoh Carla Obermeyer Anika Rahman Nawal El Saadawi Richard Shweder Eric Silverman Rosemarie Skaine Hulda Stumpf Sylvia Tamale Nahid Toubia Alice Walker

Support	FORWARD Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children International Day of Zero Tolerance RAINBO Tostan Tahirih Justice Center

Books and films	Desert Flower (book) Desert Flower (film) Moolaadé Possessing the Secret of Joy Woman at Point Zero

Legislation	Matter of Kasinga Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 2005 (Scotland) Act

Category	Female genital mutilation

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