The Standard Nimco Ali: The death threats I got for campaigning against FGM
Feb 6, 2024
16:56
Anti-FGM campaigner Nimco Ali sits down with the Evening Standard's Alexandra Jones to talk about her eleven year battle to end the practice worldwide. To mark the UN International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, they talk about:
- Why ending FGM by 2030 is a ‘tangible reality’
- How 70 million girls born between now and 2030 are at risk of the practice
- How her family reacted when she began her activism in the Evening Standard 11 years ago
- How at seven year’s old she “shocked” her teachers by telling them she was a survivor of FGM
- The death threats and "emotional punch in the gut" she received through her campaigning.
- What it meant to go from being ignored as a child to being an adult with the Prime Minister’s backing.
- The positive steps the world can take to finally end FGM
Read more from Nimco Ali in the Evening Standard newspaper, or standard.co.uk
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