Fatimata Touré
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Fatimata Touré is a women's rights activist and the head of the Regional Forum on Reconciliation and Peace in Gao, Mali.[1] She is also the head of Women’s Action, Research, Study and Training Group, which works against fistula.[2]
During the 2012 and 2013 occupation of Mali, she helped fistula patients relocate and find medical help after a hospital in Gao was attacked, as well as giving care and shelter to those forced into marriages or raped.[3][2][4] She also publicly spoke out against gender-based violence.[2] She documented the violence that was occurring, even as her own home was attacked.[4][2]
She received a 2014 International Women of Courage award.[1] Samantha Power, as America’s Ambassador to the United Nations, mentioned her in a speech she gave in Mali in 2014.[5]
References
- 1 2 "Bios of 2014 Award Winners". state.gov.
- 1 2 3 4 "Malian Woman Awarded for Promoting Health, Fighting Violence". usaid.gov.
- ↑ "State Department Honors Malian Community Mobilizer with International Women of Courage Award". intrahealth.org.
- 1 2 http://www.awiu.org/2014/05/15/introducing-fatimata-toure-2014-international-women-of-courage-awardee/
- ↑ "Samantha Power’s speech to Malian Civil Society « Afronline – The Voice Of Africa". afronline.org.
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