{"id":1422,"date":"2017-10-16T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2017-10-16T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:17:28","slug":"when-david-cameron-spoke-on-fgm-our-time-had-come-we-can-banish-it-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/when-david-cameron-spoke-on-fgm-our-time-had-come-we-can-banish-it-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"‘When David Cameron spoke on FGM our time had come. We can banish it by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nimco Ali helped launch the Standard\u2019s campaign against female genital mutilation, bravely revealing her own experience of the brutal practice. Four years later, she \u00a0tells Anna Davis she is astounded at the progress being made to eradicate it<\/p>\n

Attitudes towards the brutal practice have changed dramatically since she first spoke out and there have been global success stories. But nowhere is the change more evident than in her own family.<\/p>\n

Revealing the moment she saw how deeply the anti-FGM campaign had permeated, she said: \u201cI was with my mum and I saw a picture of Barack Obama and David Cameron at a summit together.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI made a little joke and said the thing they have in common is they have both talked about my mutilated vagina.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mum just rolled her eyes \u2014 which is an improvement on being told that I should be ashamed.\u201d This softening attitude is just one example of how she believes the tide is changing.<\/p>\n

When Ms Ali, 34, first went public about her own FGM in 2013 she had death threats and suffered verbal abuse. Now she says that people who used to troll her for talking about FGM want to support her work.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/uk\/when-cameron-spoke-on-fgm-our-time-had-come-we-can-banish-it-by-2030-a3656101.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nimco Ali helped launch the Standard\u2019s campaign against female genital mutilation, bravely revealing her own experience of the brutal practice. Four years later, she \u00a0tells Anna Davis she is astounded at the progress being made to eradicate it Attitudes towards the brutal practice have changed dramatically since she first spoke out and there have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}