Africa: FGM, child marriage survivors launch Movement to ban practice

African women launched 'Big Sister Movement' to end FGM & child marriage in Africa

Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, in Africa have launched the 'Big Sister Movement' to lead the campaign to end female genital mutilation and early child marriage in Africa.

The 'Big Sister Movement' (BSM) is the largest grassroots coalition of Local NGOs led by women survivors of FGM from The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Kenya and Somalia with the aim of giving survivors the platform to tell their own stories, advocate and find grassroots solutions to the issue of FGM in Africa.

A statement from the Coalition said it is about time Africans on the Continent be at the forefront of the campaign to end female genital mutilation and early child marriage by 2030.
 
In Africa 6000 girls are mutilated everyday. 200 million women live with the effects of FGM and 30 million girls are still at risk over the next decades. 

The Big Sister Movement hopes that after the launch there will be a total ban on FGM across all AU Member Countries where the practice is still dominant through the strategic training and empowerment of grassroots leaders and campaigners.

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