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13/12/2024

Meeting my good friend Angela Shaw, Harvard Law School graduate, in Belgium on Thanksgiving. The photo was taken in Brussels Airport. Giving Thanks for more than 25 years of friendship, inspiration, support, good fun and laughter -- despite our mutual concern for the so-called ethics governing the nation we both left for, respectively, Germany and France. With far more to explain/teach/preach about our life's choices ...

01/12/2024

A special joy came this Thanksgiving Day, meeting Angela Shaw DeCock in the Brussels Airport. Together, we ascended the 'throne' in the lobby and proceeded to tackle the Belgian medical bureaucracy before lunching in the Passage de la Reine off the golden central square.

25/11/2024

Let’s Do It!
In honor of the UN International Day to End Violence against Women – 25 November 2024

https://globalmediacampaign.org/

Praise for tenacity, professionalism, and dedication to ending FGM goes to , a project of the Global Media Campaign whose approach deserves unqualified applause. While full-time teaching, I hadn't time or resources to do what I knew was the best line of attack now being realized by Maggie O'Kane and her teams at the grassroots: teach youth to deploy media and thereby change the 'social norm' consensus on FGM. As major funders largely shutter their coffers, please also consider making a donation, knowing it will be put to good use.

GLOBAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO TO END FGM The Global Media Campaign to end fgm takes the fight in Africa straight to the frontlines – supporting a movement of over 1000 activists and local women’s rights organisations in 15 countries. Female Ge***al Mutilation is a worldwide issue that concerns 230 mi...

30/10/2024

With (l to r) Mame Toucouleur MBaye, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Senegal in Los Angeles; Dr. Tobe Levin von Gleichen; Dr. Leyle Hussein OBE; Alimatu Dimonekene MBE, Comfort Momoh MBE; Nejma Sayeh; Ani Zonneveld

29/10/2024

"How can the US government work better to support NGO's aiming to end FGM?" With this question Senior Trial Attorney Susan Masling, Human Rights and Special Prosecutions section of the U.S. Department of Justice, opened the first part of a two-day meeting that drew scores of activists, scholars, writers, cineastes, journalists, and, most important, survivors of FGM to George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health in Washington, DC, on 28 - 29 October 2024. The principal take-away from Day 1: the ablation of girls' genitalia remains, despite some gains, a (literally) burning issue.

27/10/2024

Once again sipping my strong coontinental black coffee in Frankfurt's Lufthansa Lounge, on route to the "Global Collaboration to End FGM Conference" at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health. Opportunities to join others in ending FGM have been ample in recent days. Following a meeting of the Alumnae Network of Harvard Women in Geneva, focusing on outreach in Africa, I visited London and Oxford, consulting in the British capital with author Hilary Burrage and then honing plans inOxford for our December 9th colloquium at Lady Margaret Hall with Dr. Maria Jaschok and Saarrah Ray, pictured below. Anyone interested in attending, please note the entry before this one or simply email me, [email protected]

25/10/2024

Don't miss Bruce Springhsteen and Tyler Perry -- magnificent! -- assuring you that a vote for Harris and Walz will soothe your conscience.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/bruce-springsteen-trump-american-tyrant-harris-georgia-rally?utm_term=671b1b451ed98c28d592afb40bcf8c8c&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email