Earlier this year, Girls Not Brides sponsored six members from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to learn from Tostan’s community-empowerment programme, particularly about how they had successfully adapted the programme to address child marriage...
In July of this year, the Tostan Training Center hosted a 10-day training with participants from around the globe, on Tostan’s human rights-based approach to community-led development. One of the July participants, Mariya Taher–co-founder of the...
In this article by Mia Holmgren–originally posted in Swedish in Dagens Nyheter–Mariam Bamba and Fatou Coulibaly of Soudiane, Senegal mutually disavowed female genital cutting and child marriage. Their lives took a new turn after...
The Gambia recently passed a national law banning FGC; their neighbors in Senegal have had a similar law in place since 1999. With the intent of learning from the Senegalese experience with female genital cutting (FGC) and the law, as well as with grassroots...
Researcher Antonia Morzenti conducted the following interview to get a closer look at the life of Mariétou Diarra, a Social Mobilization Agent who was trained through Tostan’s Community Empowerment Program. Mariétou’s story was also recently featured in Demba and...
