Women & Children’s Affairs

Editorial, Human Rights, Opinion, Women & Children's Affairs

Supreme Islamic Council represents one symptom of a Gambian disease. Islamic Salafist populism has failed to find its footing within our democracy

Fatoumatta: History will remember President Yahya Jammeh, among others, for enacting significant legislation banning the harmful cultural and traditional practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and ensuring quality and fair representation of women in positions of political leadership within the executive, judiciary, and legislature branches during his rule. I will […]

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Opinion on the FGM saga in The Gambia – part 1

By a concerned Gambian anti-FGM/C advocate Sharing why anti-FGM/C advocates like myself maintains the position that FGM/C remains un-Islamic in light of the current events, all of which failed to bring a single authentic evidence from both the Qur’an and Hadith and by extension from any Islamic literature to indicate […]

Editorial, Human Rights, News, Women & Children's Affairs

An open letter to the Members of Parliament – The Gambia

Distinguished Members of the National Assembly of the Gambia, I am writing to you this open letter with mixed feelings, a sense of urgency and deep concern regarding the private member bill to repeal the anti-FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) law in The Gambia. As a concerned citizen, who has a […]