Nafissatou Diop
Doctor and Coordinator of the UNFPA UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting
Nafissatou Diop is the Coordinator of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting, ‘Accelerating Change’, based in UNFPA Headquarters in NYC.
The time is now to end Female Genital Cutting
Posted 10 December 2012
Today is Human Rights day and the last of 16 days of activism to end violence against women. Around 140 million women are living with the effects of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). In Africa alone, there are around three million girls who are undergoing the practice of FGM/C each year. This doesn’t even include the [...]
