A Village in Senegal Taught Me How We Can End Female Genital Cutting Globally

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] I’ve been campaigning for an end to female genital cutting, something I experienced at the age of 7 in my home country of Somalia, for the last 15 years. With millions of women and girls affected around the world by cutting, the removal of a girls’ external genitals for non-medical reasons, this is an issue that’s close to my heart.