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Title: Transforming Social Conventions for Social Change
Publication Date: 10/31/06
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Molly Melching is the executive director of Tostan, a Senegal-based NGO that focuses on women's health and human rights and a recent finalist for the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize. Tostan's Community Empowerment Program has been featured as a "best practice" program by Unicef in the Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) Digest on Female Genital Cutting (FGM/C). Ms. Melching, winner of the Anna Lindh Award for her human rights work at Tostan, discusses the NGO's holistic, community-focused approach to promoting health and human rights and helping villages abandon child/forced marriage and female genital cutting.
Author: NYU Wagner Public Se
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00 hr 51 min 12 sec
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