My Child, My Sister by Violaine de Villers
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Khadia Diallo is a Senegalese woman who emigrated to Belgium. In her country she suffered the most serious sexual mutilation. She discovered in Belgium that these mutilations were an attack to women€™s physical integrity, dignity, right to happiness and pleasure. She founded the GAMS (Gathering for the Abolition of Female Sexual Mutilations) in Brussels.
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