'You will never end poverty or have peace if you pin girls down aged 5, cut them, break them and sell them for some cows.' Via TRF_Stories EndFGM
NEW YORK, Sept 25 - Every country must ban female genital mutilation to protect girls and help end poverty, Somali-born British campaigner Nimco Ali said as she launched a global project to end the practice by 2030.
"Everyone knows that FGM is wrong," Ali, 36, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations' key annual meeting. "You will never end poverty or have peace if you pin girls down aged 5, cut them, break them and sell them for some cows," said Ali who moved to Britain from Somaliland when she was 4 years old.
"For me the act of FGM was not the most painful experience, but the fact that it just didn't mean anything," said Ali.After studying law and joining the civil service, Ali began actively campaigning against the practice that is still widespread in about 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
"I received death threats, my family stopped talking to me, I was heckled by other Somalis," said Ali, whose work led to her receiving an Order of the British Empire this year.
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