Template talk:FGM opposition timeline


 * You never even mentioned anything about creating this template. At any rate, Raqiya Haji Dualeh Abdalla and the SWDO are the actual first anti-FGM campaigners in Somalia. They established the SWDO in 1977 (a governmental organization) to implement the government's 1972 law against FGM. As the U.S. Department of State notes :




 * Ismail only spoke out on FGM after Abdalla and her colleagues had already founded the SWDO, and she did so with governmental permission not on her own ("In 1977, when Somali Women's Democratic Organization was formed, Edna Adal Ismail, an experienced health worker, spoke out with governmental permission about infibulation" ). Ismail's proposals mentioned above likewise came after Abdalla (not Ismail) was elected as Somalia's representative on the 1979 WHO conference's five-member sub-committee on FGM. Please see the linked page with references from the SWDO itself and the United States government, among others. Middayexpress (talk) 20:27, 16 August 2014 (UTC)


 * See discussion at Talk:Female genital mutilation. SlimVirgin (talk) 21:34, 16 August 2014 (UTC)