Following the success of the first webinar, we organized a follow-up webinar about Female Genital Mutilation Protection Orders (FGMPOs). I moderated the panel discussion with three well-known speakers: Dr. Charlotte Proudman, Gillian Squires and Leethen Bartholomew.

Following the call for submissions of Ms. Dubravka Šimonović, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences, I submitted a report with the main findings following the webinar series we organized on the impact of Covid-19 on our efforts to end Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting.

The 18th of June 2020, we organized a webinar entitled ‘Impact of Covid-19 on ending FGM/C – focus on the youth‘. It was the third webinar of a webinar series about the impact of Covid-19 on our efforts to end Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C).

I co-organized a webinar entitled ‘Female Genital Mutilation Protection Orders: A British Legal Remedy to be Rolled out in other EU Countries?’ together with Dr. Charlotte Proudman (research fellow at Cambridge and barrister at Goldsmith Chambers) and Chiara Cosentino (End FGM European Network).

In June 2020 I was interviewed by journalist, colleague and friend Lizan Nijkrake about the impact of Covid-19 on efforts to end FGM/C. When I shared with her that I organized a webinar series on this topic and that two million extra girls are at risk because of the pandemic, she immediately became very interested and draw up a very nice article.