Clitoral reconstructive surgery after Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting is not (yet) available in the United Kingdom. However, in countries like France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland the surgery is available and covered by health insurance. The UK FGM Specialist Network invited me to present current evidence about the effectiveness of the surgery.

From March until August 2020, I supervised 12 students with their Bachelor Thesis at the University of Amsterdam. Because of Covid-19, this year’s supervision process was different compared to previous years, as the supervision was all those months online.

Contraception is not covered by basic health insurance in the Netherlands because it is not "medically necessary" which results in the fact that 8% of Dutch women decides not bo buy contraceptives due to financial constraints. Together with 7.228 co-plaintiffs I believe that this is not right and we try to fight for the idea that contraception should be free for eveyone in the Netherlands.

For the fourth year in a row, I had the honor to teach the course 'Public International Law' at the University of Amsterdam. Due to Covid-19, we switched to online teaching and the whole course was taught online from my office at home.

The 14th of July 2020, we organized a webinar entitled ‘Impact of Covid-19 on ending FGM/C in West Africa‘. It was the fifth webinar of a webinar series about the impact of Covid-19 on our efforts to end Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C).