Jaha Dukureh

Dukureh in 2018

Jaha Dukureh (born 1989 or 1990) is a Gambian women's right activist and anti-female genital mutilation campaigner. Dukureh was subjected to female genital mutilation in the Gambia when she was a little more than a week old. She is the founder and executive director of Safe Hands for Girls, an organization working to end FGM, and was the lead campaigner in The Guardian's End FGM Guardian Global Media Campaign

Quotes

• I am proud to join UN Women in their fight for the rights of women and girls all over Africa. I want to see the day when no parent makes a decision that will change and limit their daughters’ lives. The girls of Africa and worldwide need to know that their future is bigger than they imagine.
  • Regional UN Women Ambassador Jaha Dukureh,By Ryan Brown

• These issues are personal to me, they’re part of my life history. We won’t have equality until girls can grow up with control over their own bodies and futures.
  • Regional UN Women Ambassador Jaha Dukureh,By Ryan Brown

• I remember feeling silenced and alone,the pain was almost too much to bear.
  • Activist, Survivor, 2016 Make Equality Reality Honoree

• It was important to lead an organization that was by people like us, who have lived experience and know how to tackle these issues in a respectful manner.
  • Protecting women, By ANGELA HAUPT, Retrieved on May 2, 2024

• I can’t tell you the amount of times in a day that I hear that I’m going to hell.
  • Protecting women, By ANGELA HAUPT, Retrieved on May 2, 2024

• This is a battle of women around the world—because you may not sound like me, you may not look like me, but what they are trying to do to our bodies is the same everywhere.
  • Protecting women, By ANGELA HAUPT, Retrieved on May 2, 2024

• They’re denying a lot of the pain that women and girls are going through, and just calling it Western influence.
  • Protecting women, By ANGELA HAUPT, Retrieved on May 2, 2024