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.
"Gauguin was not present at the supposed self-mutilation, " he told Le Figaro newspaper in France.
Female genital mutilation is all over the websites of UNICEF and the World Health Organisation.
Yet there have existed moralities in which cannibalism, ritual mutilation, slavery, and rape count as morally permissible.
He has endorsed female genital mutilation as a - which is euphemistically referred to as female circumcision.
Bristol's safeguarding children board has estimated about 2, 000 girls in the city are at risk of mutilation.
Some 250, 000 people have now fled the country, bringing with them horrifying accounts of killing and mutilation.
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.
"There are a lot of activists that describe infant surgery in one word - mutilation, " explains Dr Devore.
The CPS had launched a "female genital mutilation guidance pack" to help assist prosecutors, Lady Verma told peers.
After the killing of the Assad militiaman and the mutilation of his body?
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.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has condemned the gang rape and mutilation of a 17-year-old girl who later died.
There is a high incidence among them of self-mutilation, suicide and psychological breakdown.
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.
He described the regime's "apparatus of terror, " saying Iraq has used branding, amputation, mutilation and beheadings as punishments for criminal offenses.
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.
At PatientsLikeMe, there are forums where people discuss experiences with AIDS, supranuclear palsy, depression, organ transplants, post-traumatic stress disorder and self-mutilation.
Forced marriage, "honour" killings, trafficking for sexual exploitation and female genital mutilation are all crimes exclusively or mainly perpetrated against women.
The horrific conflict, which killed up to 50, 000 people, was characterised by widespread atrocities against civilians, including mass rape and mutilation.
"Successful prosecution is the only way to deter families from perpetrating this terrible mutilation on their daughters, " Lady Tonge told peers.
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