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Isatou Touray

Feminist leader and campaigner against FGM

Born 1955

Isatou Touray is a Gambian feminist and development practitioner whose activism has focused on ending female genital mutilation and other harmful practices. She co-founded GAMCOTRAP and helped make the rights and health of women and girls a national public issue. In 2016 she became the country’s first woman presidential candidate.

THEIR MARK ON HISTORY

01Co-founded GAMCOTRAP to advance women’s rights and challenge harmful practices.

02Became The Gambia's first woman presidential candidate in 2016.

Women’s rightsFGM preventionCivic leadership
SOURCES & FURTHER READING01International Planned Parenthood Federation: Dr Isatou Touray02Front Line Defenders: Isatou Touray03Vanguard Africa: Isatou Touray profile04Wikipedia: biographical chronology

Photo: Foto: Antônio Cruz/ABr · CC BY 3.0 br. Cropped or framed for display. View original photograph.

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