Women With Balls: Nimco Ali

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Nimco Ali is an activist, government advisor, author and FGM survivor. Born in Somaliland, Nimco moved to the UK as a child fleeing civil war. On holiday in Djibouti aged 7, she was subjected to female genital mutilation, a traumatising moment in her life that led her to become one of the world’s leading anti-FGM activists today. She went on to set up Daughters of Eve, a survivor-led organisation that has helped transform approaches to ending FGM, as well as the Five Foundation, a global coalition for the same cause. Now, Nimco travels the world to lobby governments to ban FGM and recognise the practice as a human rights issue. She is the author of What We Are Told Not To Talk About - containing 42 stories from 152 interviews and in 2019 was awarded an OBE for her groundbreaking activism.

Produced by Natasha Feroze.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Lloyd's Banking Group,
0:03.8	serving Britain's communities and households for more than 250 years.
0:12.3	Hello and welcome to Women with Balls, where I Katie Balls speak to today's Trailblazers.
0:16.9	My guest, I was born in Somaliland, but moved to the UK as a child fleeing civil war.
0:21.6	She grew up in Cardiff, but on a trip at the age of seven was subjected to female genital mutilation.
0:27.6	A moment in her life led her to become one of the world's leading anti-FGM activists today.
0:32.6	She went on to set up Daughters of Eve, a survivor-led organisation that has helped transform
0:37.7	approaches to ending FGM, as well as the Five Foundation, a global coalition for the same cause.
0:43.5	My guest now travels the world to lobby the governments to clamp down on these practices.
0:47.9	She was also no stranger to British politics and was appointed by Pretty Patel in 2020
0:52.0	as an independent advisor in the home office
0:54.4	on the Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy,
0:57.1	a role she recently left.
0:58.8	In 2019, she published her first book,
1:01.2	What We Are Told Not to Talk About,
1:02.9	containing 42 stories from 152 interviews
1:05.7	and was awarded an OBE for her ground-breaking activism.
1:09.5	My guest today is Nimco Alley.
1:11.2	Thank you very much for joining us today.
1:12.4	Thank you for having me.
1:13.2	On this podcast, we always begin to saying,
1:15.0	was yours a happy childhood?
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