The 2010 winner, Julia Lalla-Maharajh, is pitching the cause of ending female genital mutilation.
They cannot speak up about rape, genital mutilation, abuse, objectification, harassment, arranged marriage, low pay, poverty.
In Guinea, female genital mutilation carries the death penalty, but it has never been applied.
ECONOMIST: Banning the practice may not be the best way of ending it
The youth of Sierra Leone are asking for an end to female genital mutilation.
Female genital mutilation is all over the websites of UNICEF and the World Health Organisation.
He has endorsed female genital mutilation as a - which is euphemistically referred to as female circumcision.
The charity is urging schools to treat female genital mutilation as they would other forms of child abuse.
In Bristol some 117 women, seen by midwives, had undergone female genital mutilation, according to a NHS study.
The CPS had launched a "female genital mutilation guidance pack" to help assist prosecutors, Lady Verma told peers.
Thus Mayan science was as good as European science, and female genital mutilation is not for Westerners to judge.
Parents who enroll their daughters must agree that they will not be subjected to genital mutilation or early marriage.
The debate about female genital mutilation, like polygamy and witchcraft, is highly charged.
ECONOMIST: Banning the practice may not be the best way of ending it
In January, the schools watchdog, Ofsted, announced it would be including schools' safeguarding arrangements on female genital mutilation in inspections.
Female genital mutilation has been banned in some African countries, but it is still practiced in some remote, close-knit communities.
She was working as an advocacy adviser when she first came across female genital mutilation and started her campaign against it.
But in Egypt, American pressure proved too great for an aid-hungry government, and the law now makes genital mutilation a crime.
ECONOMIST: Banning the practice may not be the best way of ending it
Both women were speaking at the Female Genital Mutilation Conference in London, organised by the Agency for Culture and Change Management.
Forced marriage, "honour" killings, trafficking for sexual exploitation and female genital mutilation are all crimes exclusively or mainly perpetrated against women.
Female genital mutilation is practised in a number of mainly Muslim African communities, and the tradition can travel when immigrants settle abroad.
"Female genital mutilation is an extremely painful and harmful practice that has no religious significance whatever, " says Home Office Minister Baroness Scotland.
Thus rap music becomes art, Aztec science was as good as European science, and female genital mutilation is not for Westerners to judge.
Jeremy Browne will also say that the genital mutilation of girls as young as five is "barbaric" and should be regarded as "child abuse".
In another, the actresses discuss issues such as genital mutilation, rape and domestic violence - issues which are often swept under the carpet in India.
In any event, argue some Senegalese opponents of female genital mutilation, by criminalising the practice the government will undermine delicate local efforts to discourage it.
ECONOMIST: Banning the practice may not be the best way of ending it
Ms Tamar-Mattis says that American doctors are slowly becoming less heavy-handed, but prompt surgery genital mutilation in the eyes of critics remains the norm in industrialised countries.
The EU will also finance information campaigns on female genital mutilation in its Member States and support initiatives against this practice elsewhere in the world.
He spoke of the need to grant equality to women without making mention of common Islamic practices like so-called honor killings, and female genital mutilation.
According to a 1999 report from the World Health Organization, 97 percent of Egyptian women and girls have undergone the barbaric practice of genital mutilation.
Genital mutilation, forced marriage and other forms of abuse are widespread.
Elsewhere, Charlotte Gainsbourg won the best actress prize for her shocking turn in Lars von Trier's "Antichrist, " featuring scenes of genital mutilation that left audiences stunned.
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