Our first guest for the exhibition opening “Building Bridges to End FGM” have arrived: Fatou Diatta, rapper and ambassador of End FGM together with her child, presenter Anette Hübsch and Dr. med. Gabriele Halder.

Panel discussion at the opening of the exhibition “Building Bridges to End FGM”

Anette Hübsch from SWR hosted the panel discussion in which ways to globally end the gruesome practice of gender specific violence in the form of female genital mutilation (FGM).

Fatou Diatta talks about her projects to fight against female genital mutilation in her home country Senegal. While her long term engagement in Africa is showing promising successes, the situation in many Asian countries such as Indonesia is alarming. Worldwide, 200 million women are affected by FGM.

Amongst other things, Christa Stolle, director of TERRE DES FEMMES, emphasizes that more attention needs to be paid to the situation in Germany: Girls born in Germany would be taken abroad and illegally circumcised.

Fatou Diatta and Christa Stolle know each other from joint projects in Berlin.

Monika Michell, TERRE DES FEMMES-referent, and Hasan Ugur, programme-manager of the French Film Days, visited the photo exhibition.

In cooperation with the institute for political science at the University of Tübingen, we showed the film “Iron Jawed Angels” to open the movie series “The long fight for women´s suffrage”.

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Abels (political science, University of Tübingen) answered audience questions and informed about the historical development surrounding women´s suffrage in the USA and other countries.