Efua Dorkenoo

Efua Dorkenoo, OBE (6 September 1949 – October 2014) was a Ghanaian campaigner against female genital mutilation (FGM). She was Programme Director of 'The Girl Generation: Together To End FGM' and Senior FGM Advisor for Equality Now, an international human rights organisation. 

She was one of the founders in 1983 of the Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development (FORWARD). It is a British charity that supports women who have experienced FGM. Dorkenoo is the author of Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation (1996).  

Dorkenoo died of cancer at the age of 65 in London.

References

Other websites
Equality Now home page
African Review of Books on "Cutting the Rose" 
FORWARD home page
Efua Dorkenoo and others addressing the issue at the Scottish Parliament in 2004 

Category:1949 births
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Category:Cancer deaths in London
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Category:British activists
Category:BBC 100 Women