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She showed it to me when I got home from a particularly emotionally challenging day in the Oxford Rose Clinic @OUHospitals
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The Rose Clinic is a specialist service for women and girls with FGM. Just when I think I have heard all that can be thrown at women, I hear something that shocks me to my core, that stays with me long after the woman leaves the room.
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Today is International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM. #EndFGM. But let's also remember that FGM is one of many forms of #genderbasedviolence that many of our sisters endure worldwide.
@FORWARDUK
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@FORWARDUK
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Too many women & girls are still seen as commodities, as owned, deprived of the most basic human rights that we, privileged by accident of birthplace or colour of our skin, take for granted.
@TheCircleNGO @WRAglobal
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@TheCircleNGO @WRAglobal
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The right to bodily integrity, to live life free from harm, free from degradation and torture. The right to education.
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My asks of you on International Day of Zero Tolerance for #FGM? Don't turn away. Grow your #radicalempathy. Use your voice. Shout loudly. Rattle cages. And if that's not your style? Go with kitchen table advocacy. (I'm Irish-all important conversation happen at The Table)
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