Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Zero Tolerance Day - February 6, 2004

SOURCE: USAID FGM/C Congressional Briefing From left: Dr. Abdelhadi Eltahir, Senior Technical Advisor/USAID; Rep. Jim Greenwood (R-PA); and Nawal Nour, MD, MPH, Director of the African Women's Health Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

USAID sponsored the first anniversary symposium to review advances and challenges in abandoning the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (“Translating Zero Tolerance into Zero Cutting”) at the National Press Club Ballroom in Washington, D.C., on February 6, 2004.

Speakers:

• Dr. E. Anne Peterson, MD, MPH, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health – USAID
• Mrs. Fatoumata Diakit, InterAfrican Committee (See remarks below.)
• Dr. Nawal Nour, Physician, 2003 winner of the MacArthur Genius Award (See remarks below.)
• Dr. Nahid Toubia, Founder and President of RAINBO
• Molly Melching, Tostan Program, Senegal (See remarks below.)
• Kerthio Diarra, member of the Senegalese women’s group in Malicounda Bambara

Presentations and Remarks

SOURCE: USAID Dr. Nawal Nour at the FGM/C symposium (National Press Club) presenting on the African Women's Center and its work with immigrant women, the majority of whom come from Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia.