Fatimata Touré

Fatimata Touré is a women's rights activist and the head of the Regional Forum on Reconciliation and Peace in Gao, Mali.[1] She is also the head of Women’s Action, Research, Study and Training Group, which works against fistula.[2]

During the 2012 and 2013 occupation of Mali, she helped fistula patients relocate and find medical help after a hospital in Gao was attacked, as well as giving care and shelter to those forced into marriages or raped.[3][4][5] She also publicly spoke out against gender-based violence.[6] She documented the violence that was occurring, even as her own home was attacked.[7][8]

She received a 2014 International Women of Courage award.[9] Samantha Power, as America’s Ambassador to the United Nations, mentioned her in a speech she gave in Mali in 2014.[10]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/programs/iwoc/2014/bio/index.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.usaid.gov/results-data/success-stories/fatimata-toure-woman-courage
  3. ↑ http://www.intrahealth.org/page/state-department-honors-malian-community-mobilizer-with-international-women-of-courage-award
  4. ↑ http://www.usaid.gov/results-data/success-stories/fatimata-toure-woman-courage
  5. ↑ http://www.awiu.org/2014/05/15/introducing-fatimata-toure-2014-international-women-of-courage-awardee/
  6. ↑ http://www.usaid.gov/results-data/success-stories/fatimata-toure-woman-courage
  7. ↑ http://www.awiu.org/2014/05/15/introducing-fatimata-toure-2014-international-women-of-courage-awardee/
  8. ↑ http://www.usaid.gov/results-data/success-stories/fatimata-toure-woman-courage
  9. ↑ http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/programs/iwoc/2014/bio/index.htm
  10. ↑ http://www.afronline.org/?p=32388#more-32388