Voices of dissent

By Lucy Hutchings  on Thursday 4 March 2010

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How one film-maker is highlighting the plight of 
the 6,000 girls a day who face genital mutilation

Who: Paula Heredia, the Emmy award-winning documentary director behind Africa Rising, a new grassroots film exploring the realities of female genital mutilation (FGM) across Africa.

Why she's a 21st-century woman: For making unmissable films that trigger actual social change for her real-life stars.

Her mission: To raise awareness about young women's rights and remind the world about a practice that affects 6,000 girls every day. 'Most FGM-related stories that we hear describe the horrors of it,' says Heredia. 'I wanted Africa Rising to focus on the victories and the amazing women who devote their lives to ending FGM.'

What she says: 'The goal is to empower women to tell their own stories.'

Life-changing encounters: 'Meeting women such as Edna and Beatrice Kandie, sisters who fled their home after learning their father was planning to cut them, and succeeded in getting a court order of protection against him.'

FOR MORE ON AFRICA RISING CLICK HERE

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I hope that this film goes some way to help highlight the fact that FGM is a horrendous breach of human rights and needs to be stopped.
Comment by Laura Fitt on April 07 10:28

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