Heroes of our time: Jaha Dukureh Painting

Jaha Dukureh is a Gambian women’s rights activist and anti Female Genital Mutilation campaigner. FGM, the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitals is a wide spread practice. UNICEF estimated in 2016 that 200 million woman living today have undergone these procedures. Jaha herself was subjected to the type III FGM, where the inner and outer labia and clitoris are cut away and the vulva is sewed to close, when she was about a week old. When she was 15, she moved to New York City for an arranged marriage that had been planned years earlier. She managed to earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration Management in 2013. That year, she founded Safe Hands for Girls, an anti FGM non profit organization. She is in Times 100 most influential people and Nobel Prize nominee. Her activism led to the banning of FGM in Gambia. After a photo of: Ryan Brown, UN Women This portrait is one of a series of 13 called ‘Heroes of our time’ about woman who fight for human rights. The series are for sale, not the individual portraits. Price indicated with this portrait will be x 13, for all 13 portraits Half of my earnings will go the portrayed, to support their case.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 47.2 H x 0.8 D in

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