Instigators and authors of this Statement on FGM are listed here. Others offering their support and endorsement via this website (before the formal e-petition was set up) include:
Elfriede Jelinek : Austria : Nobel Laureate in Literature 2004
Morissanda Kouyaté : Guinea : Executive Director, Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (IAC)
Chris Fearne : Malta : Chairman, Foreign and European Affairs Committee Parlament ta’ Malta; A/Chairman and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Department of Surgery Mater Dei Hospital
Khady Koita : Senegal & Belgium : President, La PALABRE , Founder, Groupe femmes pour l’Abolition des Mutilations Sexuelles (GAMS) & President, EuroNet-FGM
WADI: The Association for Crisis Assistance and Development Co-operation : Iraqi Kurdistan & Germany
Kaye Beth : USA : Art Director, UnCUT VOICES Press & Associate Producer, ” What to Bring to America” anti-FGM feature film currently in production
Neneh Bojang : Norway & Gambia : Executive Director, Inter-African Committee (ICA) In Norway & President, Musu Kangbeng Kaffo (MKBK)
Ephigenia Gachiri : Kenya: Founder and Director, Termination of FGM Project
Sayydah Garrett : USA & Kenya : President, Pastoralist Child Foundation, Inc.
Katharina Kuss : Germany : Section Manager (FGM), Terre des Femmes
Maria Jaschok : UK : Director International Gender Studies Centre (IGS), University of Oxford
Natasha R. Johnson : USA : JD, & Assistant Professor / Program Director, Metropolitan College of New York
Jill Joiner : USA : Volunteer, Mashua Voice for the Voiceless Intl. inc
Tracie Jones : USA : Faculty, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Chris Manes : USA : Professor, Richland College Dallas & Secretary, Mashua Voice for the Voiceless Intl. Inc
Arlene McCarthy : UK , North West Region: Member : European Parliament (MEP, Labour)
Susan McLucas : USA : President, Healthy Tomorrow (our work is in Mali)
Comfort Momoh : UK : Specialist Midwife (FGM & Public Health), Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London
Ruth Nizzardo : Switzerland : Head of Chapter, Mashua Gegen Genitalverstummelung – Schweiz
Nathan Nkama : USA : Senior Pastor, Zambia and Diaspora Sanctuary Family Church , Dallas
Ayano England Noda : Japan : Head of Chapter, Mashua Against FGM – Japan
Holger Postulart : Switzerland : Co-Founder & Executive Director, Global Alliance against FGM
Suzanne Richards : UK : Councillor : Manchester City Council, Longsight Ward (Labour)
Ugo Ruberto : Italy : Sapienza-University of Rome
Gina Rodriguez : USA : Treasurer, Mashua Voice for the Voiceless Intl. inc
Diane Rosenfeld : USA : Lecturer and Director, Harvard Law School Gender Violence Program
Marianne Sarkis : USA : Director, FGM Network
Airyn Sloan : Hong Kong : Airyn Poetry
Dale Smoak : USA : Board member, Healthy Tomorrow ( Massachusetts-based organization supporting Sini Sanuman in Mali)
Anabel Casti Stefano : Italian : Head of Italian Chapter, Mashua Against FGM – Italy
Dawn West : Kenya, South Sudan & USA : Sanctuary Refugee Ministries, Kenya and South Sudan; Volunteer, Mashua Voice for the Voiceless Intl. Inc
Godfrey Williams-Okorodus : Nigeria & Belgium : Artist & advocate, Gallerie Labalaba
Elisabeth Wilson : Switzerland : Co-Founder & Head of Communications and Public Information, Global Alliance against FGM
Abby Wolf : USA : Executive Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University
Deb Abbott
Antonia Lanza d’Ajeta
Pam Alemparte
Catharine Andersen
Armsby : UK
Gwladys Awo
Julie Barnett-King
Peggy Bartlett : UK : Long-time member, Amnesty International Scotland
Julie Barton : USA
Lyndal Anne Bale
Tina L Bee
Christine Benvenuto
Afton Beutler
Elicia Brandon
Daphne Brooks
Martin Anthony (‘Tony’) Burrage : UK : Violinist, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Linda Carter & Joe Carter : USA : Supporters of human rights
Chrissie Charville
Florence Chin
Nancy Church
Yvette Collings
Jacky Collins
Mimi Collins
Maha Conyers : USA
Mary Costello
Karly R Day
Sherry Donatico
Renee Fiolet : Australia
Natalie Fraser
Sonia Pressman Fuentes : USA : Feminist activist, author, public speaker and lawyer
Jean Gaffey
James Greer : UK : Principal Lecturer in Social Work, Teesside University
Kim Hamilton
Dorothy Hannis : UK
Heike Raphael-Hernandez : Germany
Merle Hoffman
Rebecca Hope
Jill Joiner
Abby Kane
Fokwa Kengue : France
Soumountha Keophilavong : USA : mom to 3 babies, social entrepreneur & women’s advocate
Marcin Kluszczynski : UK : Snr eDiscovery Analyst
Angelika Koester-Lossack : Germany : University Teacher & Green Party Activist
Teresa Kosycarz
Colleen LaFontaine
Karen Lambie
Carolyn Lawson
Marsha Lee
Julia Lombardo
Lauren M Lynley
John Mackles
Jean Elliott Manning
Marguerite Mariama : USA : Marguerite Mariama
Niurka Maricel
Penny McKee: UK (Scotland) : retired medical practitioner (GP) and Family Planning consultant
Ashley Messner
Lori Miller
Sarah Mosedale : UK
Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko : USA
Annie O’Sullivan
Stephan Partipilo
Patricia Perischine
Lynda Pfluger
Albert Price
Janet Price
Georgia Russell
Marilyn P. Safir : Israel
Seth K Sharp
Dagmar Schulz
Andrew Seely
Sandra Seltzer : USA
Marika Sherwood
Jutta Sperling
Mary Hogan Stevens
Ronald Stewart : UK
Scott Stone
Rebecca Struthers
Justine Taly
Nicole Taylor : USA
Peter Bryan Torres
Helen Walter
Julie Ward : UK : Owner, Wild Sage and Co.
Diana Wassner
Veronica Windmill
Lisa Zimmerman : UK
and…. you?
Please show your support via The Feminist Statement On FGM e-petition here.
[** NB Many signatories below have also kindly offered comments, advice and links to their organisations, posted as ‘Thoughts’ here .]