23. FGM - Nimco Ali

Nimco Ali OBE is co-founder and CEO of The Five Foundation, a global partnership to end female genital mutilation. Nimco is an activist, author and a survivor of FGM. Her tireless work has put FGM front and centre in the feminist campaign to end violence against women and girls.

Nimco was awarded an OBE for her trailblazing activism in 2019. In the past 10 years, Nimco was awarded Red Magazine’s Woman of the Year award, placed at No 6 on the Woman’s Hour Power List, named by The Sunday Times as one of Debrett’s 500 most influential people in Britain, as well as one of the Evening Standard’s Most Influential People in London and was placed at number 5 on the BBC’s 100 most inspiring Women in the world list.

Nimco’s debate book, What We’re Told Not To Talk About But We’re Going To Anyway, was published by Penguin in June 2019.

The Five Foundation https://thefivefoundation.org/

Nimco's Twitter/X https://x.com/NimkoAli

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimco_Ali

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