Rejecting FGM through AFTER

First Empowerment Path to End FGM draws to a close in Cork
  • Date: 04/08/2017
  • Author: Caroline Munyi

Since 1st March 2017, ActionAid has been conducting Empowerment Paths in Kinsale Direct Provision Centre in County Cork. Empowerment Paths are workshops based on ActionAid’s REFELCT Action approach. The aim of the programme has been empowerment and rejection of FGM. To end FGM the “empowerment” part of the process is important to give women, girls.....

ActionAid Ireland Strategy Launch
  • Date: 17/07/2017
  • Author: Jo-Ann Ward

Students Abigail (L) and Purity (R) in their dormitory in West Pokot, Kenya. Photographer’s Credit Ashley Hamer /ActionAid Meet Abigail and Purity These two girls are 14 years old. As you can see they’re friends, they’re from Kongelai in west Pokot, western Kenya. People sometimes ask me if the people in the images we share at ActionAid are.....

Everline, 25, East Pokot, Kenya, picture with her daughter. Credit: Jennifer Huxta/ActionAid

Event: Irish premiere of Girls From Earth
  • Date: 20/06/2017
  • Author: Priya Joshi

Join ActionAid Ireland for the Irish premiere of Girls From Earth this Sunday 25th June at 4pm in Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. This powerful new documentary explores the impact of female genital mutilation (FGM) through the eyes two young women. The documentary includes interviews with social workers, academics, a doctor, and decision makers in.....