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MORNING SESSION Chair - Veronica Pickering, Patron, Nottingham Community FGM Steering Group 8.00 - 9.30 Arrival and registration 9.30-10.00 Welcome Session Valentine Nkoyo Introduction and welcome the chair Prof. Edward Peck Opening remarks Paddy Tipping Welcome delegates and speakers to Nottingham Cllr Jackie Morris The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner’s commitment Chris Few Safeguarding Board Commitment. Bernard Okenwa Community Remarks 10.00 - 10.05 Video 10.05 - 10.20 Keynote Speaker Dr Comfort Momoh MBE What is FGM and how can professionals work to support and care for survivors? 10.20 - 10.30 Survivor’s story 10.30 - 10.45 Keynote Speaker Dr Phoebe Abe How can FGM survivors and grassroots organisations be supported and strengthened to tackle FGM? 10.45 - 11.00 Break 11. 00 – 11.10 Lilian Greenwood Government’s commitment to eradicating FGM 11.10 – 11.25 Address to decision and policy makers Safia Ali Government Health Action plan in Somaliland 11.25 – 12.25 Introduction of Themes Gender equality and women’s empowerment Cecily Mwaniki Importance of empowering girls and women in eradicating FGM Training, Education and research Dr. Koumba Boly-Barry Role of training and education in ending FGM in Burkina Faso Religion Shahin Ashraf FGM from an Islamic perspective Language, arts and culture Godfrey Okorodus Role of arts and men in ending FGM Media Maggie O’Kane Guardian Global Media Campaign and how people can get involved Law Lorraine Koonce Farahmand - Linda Weil-Curiel’s statement on France’s model of tackling FGM 12.25 – 12.30: Workshop briefing 12.30- 1.15

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AFTERNOON SESSION Chair: Sarah Lee, Team Manager- Achievement and Equality Team, Nottinghamshire County Council 1.15- 2.00 Discussion of Themes and Q &A -(Breakout Rooms) Gender Equality and Empowerment, @ Lecture room 8 Facilitator: Cecily Mwaniki Lead/feedback: Louise Robertson Louise Robertson Best practice interventions models in tackling FGM Nadine Dominicus van den Bussche The case of Guinea Bissau Mariama Lamizana’s Girls and women empowerment in Burking Faso (Statement

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Training, Education and research @ Bowden (First Floor) Facilitator: Amdani Juma Lead/feedback: Dr. Tobe Levin Dr. Tobe Levin Research and awareness raising in ending FGM Professor Ki-Seok Kim Role of educators in changing behaviours Religion @ Heeley (First Floor) Facilitator: Michael Henry Lead/feedback: Shahin Ashraf Shahin Ashraf FGM from an Islamic perspective Language, arts and culture @ Adams (First Floor) Facilitator: Shamsher Chohen Lead/feedback: Dr. Adebisi Adebayo Dr. Adebisi Adebayo Why FGM still happens? Coordinated efforts to eradicate harmful cultural practices Joyce Wambura The role of language and culture - Kenya case study Media @ Kiplin (First Floor) Facilitator: Sarah Lee Lead/feedback- Hillary Burrage Hillary Burrage The role of media in eradicating FGM? Law @ Lecture Theatre 2 Facilitator: Lorraine Koonce Lead/feedback- Terri Harman) Lorraine Koonce Farahmand How can the Law be used effectively to eradicate FGM Terri Harman FGM cases in the high court- The plight of survivors trying to save their daughters from being cut? Infringement FGM The developments in UK Law on tackling FGM 2.05- 2.45 Highlights from workshops Main Room Louise Robertson Dr. Tobe Levi Dr. Adebisi Adebayo Terri Harman 2.45- 2.55 Survivorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story 2.55- 3.05:

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3.05- 4.00 Local Initiatives and Services (Main Venue) Dr Julie McGarry: Nottingham University and Mojatu e-learning project Kinsi Clarke & Valentine Nkoyo Community Steering group work and launch of the regional FGM Logo Lynne McNiven Multi-agency partnership: City and County FGM Strategy Board work Clive Chambers Safeguarding and child protection Carol McCormick Local services/support and statistics - Nottinghamshire 4.00- 4.15 Q&A 4.15- 4.20 Performance: Independent Street Troup 4.20- 4.30: Closing remarks and evaluation forms Veronica Pickering

From 5pm Evening Networking Reception @ The Malt Cross, 16 St Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s St, Nottingham, NG1 6FG

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About Mojatu Foundation Mojatu Foundation is based in Nottingham and also operates in Berkshire, Kenya, Somaliland and USA. We work with individuals and communities through education, media, training and health initiatives. We work with disadvantaged communities especially women and girls, in tackling Female Genital Mutilation, supporting people with mental health needs to gain new skills within multilingual and multicultural settings thereby offering culturally sensitive and focused solutions. We publish bimonthly Mojatu magazines in Nottinghamshire and Berkshire in print and online. We undertake Female Genital Mutilation awareness campaigns, design, media, ICT, journalism, social media, literacy, work-based skills and entrepreneurial knowhow. Our trainees and volunteers are mainly women and girls, FGM survivors, young people (NEET) and all ages from new and emerging communities and mental health patients. We organise events and engage in cultural awareness and

cohesion activities to celebrate diversity and integration. We undertake community researches, disseminate findings and recommendations and promote good practice. Mojatu Foundation tackles FGM by raising awareness, supporting, engaging communities and working in partnerships to safeguard and protect children at risk. We strongly believe that by empowering the survivors of FGM and facilitating community engagement, FGM can be eradicated in a generation. We hence founded the Nottingham FGM Steering Group (NFSG) with over 29 countries represented, the majority of whom are from practising communities and survivors. This conference has been launched in the background of the past conferences and aims to end FGM together by sharing knowledge and competencies. Mojatu Foundation in partnership with partners, sponsors and other partners have come together to end FGM together. Thanks for joining us in ending FGM and empowering women and girls!.

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PATRON’S WELCOME - How we got here? It is with great pleasure that I welcome you all to our first International FGM Conference here in Nottingham: My hope is that by working together we can end Female Genital Mutilation! Since I started supporting Mojatu Foundation and its work with the Nottingham Community FGM Steering Group, we have made some significant changes beginning with the formation of the streeing group; just an idea to being acknowledged as a growing and important advocacy organisation. The idea started with just one survivor’s story: Valentine Nkoyo! Within a year, the group has now grown to more than 40 members from more than 25 different countries working together to raise awareness and engage other communities! The group comprises of survivors and members from practicing communities and supporters who want to see the end to FGM. We now meet regularly to plan and implement a variety of activities. Over the past year and a half, we have been very busy using events to deliver our message including running conferences and workshops. We’ve organised magazine coverage, film viewing, festivals, sports events, local, regional and national media engagement and lots more! Our next year looks just as busy with programmes to include men only workshops, inter-faith conferences, and development of training programmes! There are lots of fun sporty fundraising events planned too! We are a unique community led and survivors group and together, we plan and organise other activities. I am proud to be supporting this group and knowing that we are making an actual difference to the lives of children and women survivors and especially raising awareness to ensure the protection of vulnerable children.The empowering survivors stories are helping us champion the eradication of the practice of FGM and we hope that other cities will adopt the model we are using here in Nottingham. Many thanks to all at The Mojatu Team, Nottingham Community FGM Steering Group, sponsors, supporters who made todays conference possible. Mojatu is run by a small team of part time staff and depends heavily on volunteers and donations. If you would like to support the work they do, please speak to Valentine Nkoyo or me and other helpers here today. I would like to sincerely thank Nottingham Trent University Vice Chancellor, Professor Edward Peck. In choosing Mojatu Foundation as NTU’s chosen charity for the year NTU have not only allowed us to generously use this wonderful venue but to significantly grow as an organisation. I would also like to thank the Police and Crime Commissioner, Paddy Tipping, for all their continued support in our work in Nottinghamshire. Through his office, we have been able to reach out to the wider community and we hope that this collaboration and support will continue. Today we hope you’ll take the opportunity to make new friends and develop new contacts, but most importantly to consider how best you can help us protect and prevent young vulnerable girls becoming victims of FGM. On behalf of the Mojatu Foundation, Nottingham Community FGM Steering Group, I say welcome to International Conference: End Female Genital Mutilation Together. Please keep in touch with us! Veronica Moraa Pickering Patron, Nottingham Community FGM Steering Group

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A registered charity in Nottingham supporting individuals within the local community with multi cultural workforce, committed to working for and with the local community encouraging social inclusion within society.

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Blue Mountain Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Veronica E.Made Barnes Enterprise: up of 07790158615 women from AfricanCaribbean and African Blue Mountain Women Enterprise bluemountainwomen@gmail.com backgrounds where they www.bluemountainwomen.org share experiences and knowledge thus enabling We meet at Self-help Nottingham &Nottinghamshire them to lead more Ormiston House fulfilled lives. 32 -36 Pelham Street, Nottingham NG1 2EG

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Speakers Profiles Veronica Pickering, Patron of the Nottingham FGM Steering Committee. Veronica has spent most of her career working with and supporting vulnerable children, families and communities as a Social Worker, Children’s Guardian, and as an International Child Protection Consultant. She worked for many years in the east end of London before moving to Kenya to work with the UN and other organisations in Africa. Veronica now works as a consultant supporting a number of institutions and individuals in Nottingham as a personal coach and mentor and as an International child Protection consultant. Veronica is a Director and Board member of a number of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire charities. In May 2013 Veronica was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant for Nottinghamshire.

Valentine has a diploma in Creative Writing and Documentary Film Making, First Class Honours Degree in Business Management and just completed an MBA course at Nottingham Trent University. She has over 5 years’ experience in international development and working with communities mainly girls, women and young people and has set up projects and campaigns in Africa and the UK to support these groups. Before moving to Nottingham, Valentine was a Programme Coordinator for African Programmes for an international development agency, United Nations Association International Service. Valentine is keen to see the end to FGM and her advocacy work within her own family has helped the entire family drop the practice. She is the last born girl in her family and FGM ended with her. She believes that FGM can be eradicated within a generation if all affected women and communities acknowledges it as a harmful practice and educate their families. She has been campaigning against FGM and Valentine Nkoyo, Director has spoken in many conferences, led workshops of Mojatu Foundation and training. She mentors, supports and refers and chair of Nottingham vulnerable survivors to services available. al NewsFGM & Sports Community Steering Valentine has done consultancy work to support d Group. Valentine, with who isDr Phoebe womenAbe, groups professionals Interview GPand ..................... 4-7including the d also the managing Editor Border Force at Terminal 5, London Volunteers Week & Refugee Week........................... 8 Heathrow el of the Mojatu Magazines, Airport. Her work in the community has been inboards Lenton ............................................................. 9 including: d. sits onLiving different recognised by different organisations BME Mental Health .....................................................10 d including the City and The British Council, National Institute of Adult County FGM Strategy Continuing St John University and n Taken Too Soon, Ending Youth Education, Violence York .............12 s. Board, as well as being the Organising Secretary of other community led organisations. Community Association. d the Kenya Nottinghamshire Welfare and brought up in a small Maasai village Professor Edward and Born for what is good Castle Cavendish Summer .......................................14 in Kenya, Valentine is a human rights activist, Peck, Vice- Chancellor positive and survive The Feminine Pain.......................................................15 public speaker, advocate for education and FGM of Nottingham Trent hesecampaigner. negative Her forces Kenya girls Dayand in the Farm........................................ 16-17 . passion to support University women has greatly been influenced by her own Professor Eliminating FGM by 2030 .................................. 18-19 Peck was experience raised in Skelmersdale in xperienced GPofisliving one in poverty and experiencing discrimination at a younger age. A part of Lancashire and attended Faith & Spirituality wering story and her her Maasai community still doesn’t value girl’s Ormskirk Grammar ally displaced people youngFGM women drawn to extremism?School. ........22He graduated education. She was forced toWhy go through managing her career aged 11. She escaped child marriage and had to from the University of Arts & Culture Bristol with a BA in Philosophy fund her own education through fundraising and in 1981, the first seeking scholarships from a young age. step in his engagement with further and higher Zambian writer Namwali Serpell ...........................21 aken Too Soon (p12),

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education. His second was a Diploma in Personnel Management at what was then Bristol Polytechnic where he learnt to appreciate the career benefits of vocational education and which led to him being recruited onto the National Health Service graduate management training scheme in 1982. Over the next few years he studied for a Diploma in Health Services Management through a correspondence course (the distance learning of its day) and a p/t Masters in Social Policy and Administration at the University of Nottingham.

Paddy Tipping, Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire. The former MP for Sherwood, Paddy Tipping was elected as Nottinghamshireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) in November 2012, an office he will hold until May 2016.

It was his first substantive job in the NHS - based at Mapperley Hospital - that brought him to Nottingham, and after a number of senior posts in Newcastle he joined the Centre for Mental Health Services Development in 1992, becoming Director in 1994. In October 2002, Professor Peck moved to the University of Birmingham as Director of the Health Services Management Centre and subsequently became Head of the School of Public Policy in 2006. He was appointed Head of the College of Social Sciences in January 2008. As well as leading the College, he initiated the University's academic platform in China and oversaw the development of the UK's first University Training School. He also played an active role in the civic life of the City which included being a Non-Executive Director of the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust and VicePresident of the Chamber of Commerce. He joined Nottingham Trent University as Vice-Chancellor on August 1st 2014.

Before his election he pledged to give extra priority and resources to tackling domestic violence and crimes against girls and women. As a result, the protection of vulnerable women from violence is firmly embedded within his Police and Crime Plan and as part of this commitment he is keen to help increase awareness of FGM so that those in a position of authority will recognise the signs and take appropriate action to safeguard potential victims.

Councillor Jackie Morris, The Lord Mayor of Nottingham. The Lord Mayor is the first citizen of Nottingham and is elected in May at the Annual Council Meeting. Cllr Jackieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s key purpose as the Lord Mayors is to act as the political figurehead of the City Council; champion of the city of Nottingham and its people and symbolise the social cohesion of the city and its many cultures and faiths. She also helps to promote the diplomatic, business, commercial, cultural and educational life of the city of Nottingham.

Chris Few, Independent Chair of Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board. Chris Few has been the Independent Chair of the Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board since April 2009 and was recently reappointed until 2018. After a 30 year Police career Chris Few also works as a freelance Consultant, leading Serious Case Reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews and other commissions for public sector organisations.

His Police and Crime Plan identifies seven top priorities for tackling crime and associated issues which cover support to victims, witnesses and vulnerable people, improving the criminal justice process, focused work in higher crime areas, reducing the impact of drugs and alcohol, the threat from organised crime, reducing reoffending and spending the police budget wisely. The Commissioner also continues to campaign against Government funding cuts and is working hard, with support from local partners, to enhance neighbourhood policing and reduce anti-social behaviour.

Nottingham connected Dr Comfort Momoh MBE, BSc, MSc, RGN, RM, Midwife and FGM/Public Health Specialist. Dr Comfort Momoh is a Consultant/Public Health Specialist with extensive experience of holistic women centred care. A researcher of women’s health and a strong campaigner/ supporter against Domestic Violence and for the eradication of FGM. She established and runs the African Well Woman’s Clinic at Guy’s and St Thomas Foundation Trust in 1997. She holds a master’s degree – King’s College London (University of London) in Women’s Health and Health Promotion. Comfort acted as an expert witness for the All Party Parliamentary Hearing on Female Genital Mutilation for England and Wales in 2000 and for Scotland in 2005. Representing the World Health Organisation in the next World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in October 2009 in South Africa (XIX FIGO). She received award from the Queen of England as a Member of British Empire (MBE) in 2008 for services for women’s Health and Honorary Doctorate Degree same year from The Middlesex University. Comfort provides training and conferences at local, national and international levels. She was invited by the Australian Health Minister to present on FGM in Canberra in April 2013 at their FGM Summit. A product of King’s College London and a visiting lecturer at same University as well as at the London Tropical School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Middlesex University. In November 2013 Comfort was awarded a scholarship by The Florence Nightingale Foundation Trust in England to undertake a research Study in America. She was also included in the 2013 Health Service Journal BME Pioneers list that celebrates the influential leaders working within health care in England. Recognising and celebrating 100 outstanding Nigerians in the UK in the last 100 years. She was recognised by HSJ on 9th July 2014 as one of fifty Inspirational Women in Healthcare.

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Comfort was included in the 1000 most influential Londoners 2014. London Evening Standard. Dr Phoebe Abe, MB ChB MSc CTM: GP & FGM Support Clinic Practitioner. Dr Abe was born in Uganda, attended Medical School at Makerere University but had to abandon her studies when she arrived in the UK as a refugee. She completed her degree at Manchester University Medical School. She did her MSc in Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London University. Her late husband Mr Wilson Okwonga FRCS was a Consultant Surgeon at Hillingdon Hospital Middlesex and died in un-explained helicopter crash in Uganda leaving her widowed at a young age. Dr Abe is a General Practitioner in the UK and runs an FGM clinic that works with women living with FGM with the aim of empowering them. She is an associate member of the APPG (All Parliamentary Party Group) on FGM to the delight of her wonderful children. She is the CEO of the Dr. Abe Foundation based in London. She has done extensive work to support refugees in Uganda and support for FGM survivors. She has done a huge amount of campaigning on FGM on TV, Radio and National Newspapers and has given lectures and talks all over the UK. Her latest book on FGM: "Female Genital Mutilation- An A-Z Guide” came out in February 2015. She has been instrumental in supporting a new movement (FGM Association Worldwide- FAW) aimed at creating a support network for FGM survivors. Lilian Greenwood- MP Nottingham South. Lilian Greenwood was elected on 6th May 2010 to serve as the Labour Member of Parliament for Nottingham South in which The University

14 Speakers & Facilitators of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University are part of. As a former regional official for the trade unio n, UNISON, representing public service workers, Lilian campaigned successfully on a range of issues such as equality, improving pensions, increasing funding for the health service and workers’ rights. She remains committed to these issues while in Parliament, speaking in hundreds of debates and regularly questioning Ministers and the Prime Minister. As the MP for Nottingham South, Lilian has an office in the city centre. Since she was elected she has visited a wide range of community groups, schools, businesses and organisations across her constituency. As well as visiting groups, Lilian holds advice surgeries every week to help individual constituents with a wide range of issues which can range from problems with benefits, child support payments, housing or immigration; to listening to people’s concerns regarding the Tory-led Government’s legislation and plans. Dr Koumba Boly Barry Experte En Education Membre d' Honneur De L'APENF Dr Koumba BolyBarry is a specialist in Non Formal (Adult) Education. Until 2014, she was the Minister of National Education and Literacy in the Burkina Faso government formed on April 21 2011. She is a lecturer herself and has taught at the University of Ouagadougou. She holds a doctorate in history. After time spent at the Pan African Institute for Development West Africa she worked as a consultant at UNESCO, at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Canadian Embassy and the World Bank. In 1999 she was appointed co-ordinator of the Swiss Co-operation Agency literacy programme in Burkina Faso. She was a Coordinator of all African countries on Non Formal Education in ADEA .She is very passionate about giving education opportunities to all whether they have gone through the formal education systems or not. She is a big advocate for girls

mojatu.com educations and outspoken about issues affecting women like FGM. Dr Boly is currently a visiting academic attached to the Centre for International Education Research at The University of Nottingham. Shahin Ashraf MBE, Chaplain, MWNUK project manager and National Lead and researcher on FGM. Shahin joined Muslim Women’s Network UK’s Program Manager (MWNUK) in 2013 and is the National Lead and researcher on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), working closely with survivors from FGM affected communities, and practitioners in this field. Shahin is a trained Counsellor and a Muslim Chaplain at the University of Birmingham and leads key theological debates on women’s issues in the context of the Quran and Sunnah, and what it means to be a Muslim woman in 21st century Britain and Europe. As a human rights activist, Shahin has also worked in Pakistan and Afghanistan and spent 8 years in the US helping to set up and develop an international Muslim NGO. At MWNUK, she manages the MWN Helpline and also is our National lead on Female Genital Mutilation. She has carried out research on FGM in Birmingham collecting numerous survivor stories and also delivers awareness raising workshops in schools to both pupils and staff. She is a passionate campaigner and activist for gender justice, seeking to improve the participation of women within BME communities. Bernard Okenwa Bernard comes from a royal family in Nigeria and is a High Chief of the Nigerian Community. He has lived in Nottingham for many years and has been involved in a lot of community work. He has a nursing background and many years of experience in the social care sector. He runs the Langdale House Care Home here in Nottingham.

Nottingham connected Cecily Mwaniki, Director CMnetwork Cecily champions in empowering women to go beyond the inevitable life’s challenges and fulfil their potential. This is with the view of promoting wellbeing, career progress, wealth creation, healthy family relationships and positive parenting. This, as Cecily says is core to a healthy society. Cecily’s background is teaching, Women Studies, Substance Use and Misuse and Public Health & Health promotion. She is an Author of six published Books and about to launch the 7th, CoFounder, Utulivu Women, www.utulivu.co.uk and CMnetwork-www.cmnetwork.co.uk. She believes in being the change she wants to see in the world especially in the world of women. Godfrey WilliamsOkorodus, artist and an FGM Campaigner. Born in Lagos Nigeria he studied graphics and advertising before becoming a cartoonist and illustrator with the guardian newspapers in Nigeria. In 1995 he started painting full-time and has been based in Belgium since 2000. He established Laba-Laba gallery (butterfly in Yoruba) in Kloosterstraat street, Belgium. Godfrey Williams-Okorodus works in a variety of mediums (acrylic,oil, water colour mixed media), mostly executed with a palette knife which he finds more challenging in expressing his artistic ideas than the traditional brush. His paintings and works are fused with the African love for bright vibrant colours constant movements and very expressive features. In his arts he strives to share his love for humanity and to point out the ills that mankind is doing to this very fragile and beautiful world. He has been campaigning against FGM using his arts for several years now taking his exhibition to different parts of the world.

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Maggie O’Kane, editorial director, Guardian Films Maggie O’Kane is the editorial director of Guardian Films, the Emmy award-winning film company that specialises in investigative films for the Guardian website and British and international television. Since 2014 she has been involved in the Guardian’s Global Media campaign which aims at using the Guardian’s international reputation to harness the support of media organisations worldwide to end FGM within a generation. The FGM media campaign is in UK, USA, Kenya, the Gambia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone among other countries. Maggie O’Kane has two young daughters, Ruby and Bella who are a continued and sustained inspiration in the fight against FGM. She is a part of team of dedicated women at the Guardian, the Gambia and Kenya who have run this campaign with the support for the Guardian’s former editor, Alan Rusbridger and its current editor, Katharine Viner- and finally none of this would have been possible without the backing of the Human Dignity Foundation, an Irish based foundation dedicated to making the world a better place, and the woman who runs it on a day to day basis, Mary Healy. Professor Lorraine Koonce Farahmand, Lawyer, advocate, gender, human rights, rights of women. Lorraine Koonce Farahmand Esq is an English solicitor and NY lawyer. She is also an international law professor in the Anglo American Law degree programme at the Universitié De Cergy in France where she lectures on human rights and gender law. Her area of speciality is gender violence and the human rights of women. She is often an invited speaker on the legal aspects of gender violence and FGM. Lorraine Koonce Farahmand was the moderator and organiser of the Violence Against Women conference that took place in Paris in the autumn

16 Speakers & Facilitators 2014. Recently she was one of the panellist at the UN Human Rights Council - Session 29 – Panel on FGM Policies and Resolution in Geneva. Louise Robertson, 28 Too Many Louise began her career in human resources over 25 years ago and has worked in leading international companies. She has a strong commitment to women’s rights and welfare and has undertaken voluntary work with charities including London Rape Crisis and Victim Support. Louise joined 28 Too Many in March 2012 and oversees policy, campaigns and communications. Louise is also a trustee and director for The League of Friends of Teddington Memorial Hospital which raises funds for a much valued community hospital. Nadine Dominicus van den Bussche Nyangoma. Nadine is from Belgium. She is a historian and has lived for many years in Guinée-Bissau where she taught at the Kwamé N’Krumah grammar school. Le Chant des fusillés [Song of the Executed] is in part based on her own life. Educated in Contemporary and Economic History, She has also Studied Management and Accountancy. She is fluent in French, English, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese and, with some knowledge in Arabic. She has been a Research collaborator for a UN delegation, Professor at Dpt Journalism at University of Algiers and School of Administration in Bissau. A writer and journalist, she also collaborated for the INEP, Research Institute in Bissau and was a member of a Guinea-Bissau NGO specialized in integrating Local Knowledge in development. She is passionate about Ending FGM given the impact it continues to have on children and women in Guinea Bissau and across the world.

mojatu.com Dr Tobe Levin Freifrau (Baroness) von Gleichen, activist, publisher. University of Maryland UC in Europe Professor emerita Tobe Levin Freifrau (Baroness) von Gleichen, PhD., has been fighting to stop FGM since 1977 when, a student in Munich, she first learned about the practice. She has been called a foremother of the anti-FGM movement in Germany and, encouraged by her friend Efua Dorkenoo, she co-founded FORWARD-Germany in 1998 and UnCUT/VOICES Press, publishing against female genital mutilation, in 2009. She is a Visiting Research Fellow in International Gender Studies at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, and has been a Fellow and Associate of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, since 2006. An author, translator, and editor with advanced degrees from the Sorbonne and Cornell University, she speaks six languages. Dr Adebayo Adebisi, Senior Advocacy Officer at the Liaison Office of the Inter African Committee on Practices. Dr. (Mrs) Bisi Adebayo is the Senior Advocacy Officer at the Liaison Office of the Inter African Committee on Practices Affecting the Health of women and Girls headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The organization works in 29 countries in Africa with affiliates in 13 non-African countries all over the world to promote the health of women and girls. Dr. Adebayo holds a PhD in Population Studies from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. She has a sustained interest in gender and women’s health issues with accumulated diverse experiences internationally from different countries both in Europe (UK and Switzerland) and Africa (Nigeria, Kenya and Cote d'Ivoire) and has consulted for different International Organisations including WHO, UNAIDS and UNEP. She is passionate about the elimination of

Nottingham connected harmful traditional practices that affect the health of women and Girls in Africa. She has carried out lot of research and has written many times on the root causes of the status of women as well as on different socio-economic issues". She is committed to contributing her part to improving the lives of women and girls in Africa. Joyce Wambura. Joyce Wambura is a third year PhD student at York St John University. She comes from Kenya where she studied for undergraduate and masters. She graduated with First Class honors (Education) and masters in language and linguistics. She has researched and published majorly about Kuria Language. She is also a human rights crusader and has been actively involved in anti-FGM campaign in Kuria-Kenya. Her doctoral research focuses on the role of language in propagating gender inequalities and perpetuating FGM. Hilary Burrage, FGM campaigner, Health professional, lecturer and writer. Hilary Burrage is a sociologist who has campaigned against FGM for many years. She has been a Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care and a Trustee of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and earlier in her career was a Liverpool University Research Associate in teenage pregnancy and community health. Since 2013 she has been a Consultant for the Guardian on FGM. Hilary has just completed a textbook (handbook), Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation, on FGM in the UK and other western nations, which will be published in October. A second book, on the experiences of women who have undergone, or seeking to stop, FGM, is due out in February 2016. Hilary welcomes communication from other campaigners to #EndFGM, and can be reached via her

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website www.hilaryburrage.com (with many articles on FGM), or via email hilary.burrage@ btconnect.com or Twitter (@HilaryBurrage). Terri Harman, family lawyer. Working in the family law team, Terri Harman is a recognised specialist in both international abduction and international or UK adoption work. Terri joined Nelsons in 2010 and her areas of expertise include children law matters, care proceedings, wardship, as well as advising on legal issues around female genital mutilation, forced marriages and domestic violence. With more than 14 years of family law experience, and alongside with her child abduction law accreditations, Terri also is a Resolution accredited solicitor in Private Children Law and Domestic Violence. Terri is a member of the Law Society's Children and Adult Representative panels. InFrinGeMent Sanjit Nagi, Kathryn Moran, Ashleigh Glenn and Ben Chapman, graduates of the Law School's Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC), and final year LLB Law with Psychology student, Georgina Foreman, set up the extra-curricular inFrinGeMent project with support from the Legal Advice Centre at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. Hana Gibremedhen Hana is an FGM survivor who was made to go through the practice at the age of 13 in Ethiopia. She has continued to live with the consequences of FGM ever since. Hana developed complications during her pregnancy and this led to having

18 Speakers & Facilitators labour for four days and four nights and other serious complications after the pregnancy. She has one daughter and has pledged to never have her daughter cut. She has now made a commitment to share her experience to safeguard and protect children at risk and work with other survivors to empower each other. Dr Julie McGarry, Associate professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham. Julie is currently employed in an academic role within the School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK. Julie’s clinical background is in adult and mental health fields of nursing practice – predominantly working with vulnerable adults both in hospital and community settings. Julie is an established researcher and her area of research expertise is in the field of domestic and gender based violence and abuse (DVA) with a focus towards survivors’ experience of abuse and the development of effective health care professionals’ responses. Julie’s lead in this research to date has attracted local and national funding with research studies focusing on ‘applied’ research for example, working with national and local agencies in the UK in the development of DVA services for older women, exploring novel approaches to DVA identification through the domestic nurse specialist role and a qualitative exploratory study of health care professionals approaches to DVA within emergency departments. Julie is currently working with a specialist DVA agency on a funded arts based project with older women to explore their experiences of DVA and the impact on long term physical and mental health and wellbeing. The findings of the project will be used to work with the older women who have taken part in the project in the co-construction of an e-learning teaching package. The finished resource will be available in open access format for health and social care practitioners both nationally and internationally. Julie’s work synthesises research, education and

mojatu.com practice and she has recently been awarded the title of Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has also received national recognition from the UK Queens Nursing Institute for her ‘outstanding contribution to community nursing’. Kinsi Clarke, BA, LLM, MA - FGM specialist and Trainer Kinsi has many years’ experience working in local authorities, higher education and in the voluntary/3rd sector, along with overseas work in the humanitarian field and central government. During that time. She has gained a wide-spectrum of skills, experience and knowledge across different service sectors. Currently she is the manager of a Migrant Health Project at Nottingham Refugee Forum, which she has been involved with since 2010. After obtaining a First Class Joint Honours Degree in Law and Social Welfare, Kinsi went on to gain two Masters Degrees, firstly in Human Rights Law, and more recently in Public Health, the latter with distinction. Kinsi, who is an FGM survivor herself, is passionate about fronting the eradication of FGM and is an activist and a campaigner in this context. She is committed to the causes of social justice and human rights, and particularly to the welfare of refugees and asylum seekers. She is currently a member of various strategic boards and forums including the Nottingham City and Notts county FGM Strategic Board and Nottingham City CCG Peoples Council. Kinsi is one of the executive members of the Nottingham Community FGM Steering Group, and she has played a significant role in the hosting and organising of this Conference. Lynne McNiven, Public Health Consultant in Nottingham City Council. Lynne has lived in Nottingham for the past 12 years and is originally from the West Coast of Scotland. She has

Nottingham connected significant experience working across the whole of the East Midlands during her Specialty Registrar training. Her clinical background is in Nursing and Midwifery. Lynne originally trained in public health at Glasgow University and gained Faculty of Public Health Fellowship through the University of Nottingham. She is passionate about reducing health inequalities and improving health and social outcomes. “I can be fairly tenacious when leading a public health agenda and believe that as a public health professional, my role as an advocate for vulnerable populations is imperative. Not many people in Nottingham know that I have also represented Scotland in 2 sports, rugby and rowing. I coach my son’s under 10s rugby team at the moment and I am very excited about the forthcoming rugby world cup!” Clive Chambers, Head of Service: Safeguarding and Quality Assurance (Children). Clive is a qualified Social Worker with over 30 years of experience of working with children and families in a various settings. He has had worked at every stage of intervention from early help through to statutory intervention to protect children at risk of significant harm. “Over the past 16 years I have worked in a leadership role, primarily in local authority children’s services. I have also spent three years as a member of the Senior Leadership Team for the largest region in Barnardo’s, covering more than a quarter of England and was responsible for one of the largest localities in the UK. Mel Bowden, Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) within Public protection responsible for child abuse, rape, Female Genital Mutilation and child sexual abuse.

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Carol McCormick, FGM Consultant Carol is a nurse and graduate midwife with the diploma in tropical medicine and postgraduate law degree. Whilst working in the Middle East and Africa she gained hands-on experience in dealing with FGM. On return to the UK she worked in Nottingham as the consultant midwife in intrapartum care. In addition, she has run the female genital mutilation service in Nottingham for the past 13 years. Cllr Patience Ifadiora, Councillor for Aspley Ward. Patience is the Councillor for Aspley Ward. She is the first African woman to be a councillor in Nottingham City. She has been involved in the establishment of food banks in Nottingham in collaboration with different local organisations. She is very passionate about community work and womens’ issues from different cultures. She is keen to encourage other people from Africa especially young people to be involved in community work and politics. She is an inspiration to young girls and women and is keen to develop empowerment programmes for girls and women in Nottingham. Sarah Lee, Team Manager for the Achievement & Equality Team, Nottinghamshire County Council Sarah provides support, training and guidance for schools and early years’ providers. The team’s remit includes a wide- range of equality issues and Sarah has experience of working with diverse communities across the city and the county. In her spare time, Sarah is also a reflexologist and hopes to be able to offer her therapy to survivors of FGM locally in the near future.

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Michael Henry, Director Communities Inc. Michael has worked in the Third Sector for over 25 years. As the director of Communities Inc., he engages in promoting community engagement and partnership development across all sectors. Communities Inc’s projects vary from researching and showcasing black community activism to the development of the UK Centre for Black Philanthropy. Michael’s practical experience is underpinned by both management and marketing qualifications which have helped him work at all levels to inspire and develop innovative, creative but realistic solutions to challenges within the Third sector. In 2001 Michael received an award from Nottingham City Council for his contribution towards the promotion of good race relations in the city. In 2009 he won the Business in the Community (Marks & Spencer sponsored) Sieff Award for the East Midlands. The award recognises individuals, based in the community, who have successfully collaborated with the Private Sector to benefit society.

BME infrastructure organisation Voice4Change England (V4CE). She was the first CEO of Voice East Midlands, London Regional Director for CEMVO and the Mainstreaming Equalities Manager at Government Office London. She is passionate about Community Development and was the Chair of the Community Development Exchange for 5 years as well as being a Board member of Urban Forum. In 2001 Shamsher was noted as the Rising Star under 40 for the East Midlands by The Guardian newspaper. Shamsher is a Common Purpose graduate, Fire walk Instructor, NLP Trainer, Shamanic Practitioner and a Stage Hypnotist.

Shamsher Chohan -Shamsher started work as a volunteer in 1988 with the Terrence Higgins Trust in London. She then became active as a volunteer and paid worker in the HIV sector. Shamsher attended and presented research that she had done at 5 International, Asia and the Pacific AIDS conferences up to 1996. Shamsher has been involved in many voluntary organisations locally, regionally and nationally and was one of the founding members of the national

“I ensure the availability of essential, life-saving SGBV response interventions. These dynamic response teams act on referrals from individuals, be they self-referral, or accompanied by relative or the authorities, to safeguard girls and women. I also oversee comprehensive case management and capacity-strengthening of local service providers and liaising with other institutions including, Ministry of Women”. In her role, Safia also facilitates provision of ongoing oversight, training, and guidance to staff and interns and further ensure SGBV programming meets best practice standards and priorities that relate to the safety and security of victims and front line staff.

Are you FGM survivors? Are you interested in taking part in a creative approaches for developing e-teaching and e-learning materials? Call or Text 07794372214 Email valentine@mojatu.com

Safia Ali, Sexual gender base violence coordinator, office of Attorney general Somali. As a program coordinator, Safia’s principle objectives are to provide technical leadership in the SGBV sector of which include advocating and tackling FGM and planning, implementing and overall project management of SGBV programs.

Conference, Sponsors, Partners & Friends Narratives of Survivorship: Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Experiences of FGM told through Creative Expression

African Institute for Social Development (AISD), Nottingham By Juma Amdani

By Dr Natasha Recchia, Dr Julie McGarry, Dr Richard Windle, University of Nottingham, School of Health Sciences.

AISD is a volunteer, African-led, community based organisation (CBO) that enables Africans and Migrants to access health services, information, support, and skills opportunities. Using creative approaches, the overall aim of this project is to co-produce a teaching and learning resource which explores the life experiences of women within the context of FGM. The project has adopted a collaborative approach to the study design and we have been working with our colleagues from the Mojatu Foundation to ensure that all stages of the project from initial development ideas through to production of the final resource, evaluation and dissemination are participant led throughout. The development of the e-learning resources will take place during a one day workshop with women as survivors of FGM in order to explore positive life histories and personal narratives of survivorship. The narratives explored during the workshop will be used to develop an e-learning teaching and learning resource. The content and format for the e-learning resource will be finalised at a further workshop and will be largely determined by the women participants as part of the project team. It is anticipated that the final version of the learning resource which will be made available as an open access resource. At a local level the resource will directly inform the delivery of continuing practice development education and training. Due to the paucity of existing resources in this field it is anticipated that the resources will also be of value to a range of agencies and organisations nationally and potentially internationally.

AISD builds solid partnerships and active collaborations with local, regional and national health and skills agencies that help Africans and other ethnic minorities to live better and to fully participate in the UK society. We work in collaboration with the local authorities, NHS and regional partners to inform, educate and distribute free health information and condoms packs in the community in the effort to reduce the rate of ill health, HIV and sexual health infections. In 2014-2015, our work also involves empowerment African Communities to tackle the issues of Sickle Cell Anaemia and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) through supporting survivors and building partnerships with other community organisations sharing aims and objectives. Oscar and AISD organise public events funded by NHS Nottingham City CCG to involve young people to mount campaigns to build culture of finding out Sickle Cell Anaemia status in young people before they start a family which help them avoid suffering for both children and parents in the future. Mojatu Foundation and African Institute formed a strong steering group to support FGM survivors and got funding from the Nottinghamshire Police Commissioner to raise robust campaigns in Nottingham City and County. Valentine Nkoyo the chair of the Steering Group and a survivor plays vital role in this campaigns. Contact details: Mr Amdani Juma; Call / Text: 07572604343 Email: admin@africaninstitute.org.uk Web: www.africaninstitute.org.uk

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Advice and support- to victims of domestic violence, HBV, forced marriages, female genital mutilation and other forms of human rights abuses against women and girls. In addition to dealing with issues of actual violence and safety, we often cover housing, debt and money problems, welfare benefits, etc. We will shortly be starting a “Transitional Support Worker” project for women who have reached the breaking point in a relationship and have decided to break free and want to start a new and safe life. FGM workshops – we run workshops on FGM, mainly for women and girls but occasionally for men! On behalf of Islington Council we have also provided FGM awareness training for professional workers.

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Campaigning – Alone and in partnership with peer organisations we organised campaigns and petitions for changes in legislations for the effective protection of women against violence and human rights abuses.

Our core target groups are essentially women from the Middle East, Kurdistan and North Africa KMEWO, Caxton Way, 129 St John’s Way, London N19 3RQ - info@kmewo.com - www.kmewo.com

Pain Concern: Broadcasting the impact of FGM

Pain Concern was awarded funding from Rosa: the UK Fund for Women and Girls for a project to raise awareness of the long term effects of female genital mutilation (FGM) on survivors, including the often overlooked issue of persistent pain. We produced ‘Protect our girls’, a special episode of our radio programme Airing Pain, in which Janet Graves (a former producer of BBC Women’s Hour) hears from FGM survivors and the healthcare professionals treating them about this culturally-embedded practice and how to uproot it. You can listen to the programme, access further resources and find out more about this project on the Pain Concern website: painconcern.org.uk/airing-painprogramme-71-protect-our-girls. We hope you find the resources we have produced useful and will share them with service users and colleagues. We would warmly welcome any feedback: comment@painconcern.org.uk. Praise for our Airing Pain radio programme on FGM ‘Excellent, straight to the point and very clear’ Dr Comfort Momoh, FGM Consultant and Public Health Specialist ‘Having women tell their own stories was incredibly powerful.’ Florence Rose Burton, Women’s Resource Centre

Pain Concern provides information and support to people with pain and those who care for them, whether family, friends or healthcare professionals. Visit our website to find out more about our work, including our Airing Pain radio programme, Pain Matters magazine, information helpline, community pain education sessions, research and campaigning.

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