Help get FGM on the global agenda! Vote on YouTube by 11.59pm on 15th January 2010
Great news! Julia – one of FORWARD’s volunteers – is in the top five finalists of a global YouTube/Davos competition! But we need your help to get her to win!
This means Julia has a very real chance to go to Switzerland and ask world leaders to help end female genital mutilation. Three million girls a year have their lives blighted by FGM; 140 million women live with the horrendous physical and psychological issues. This is now a global problem.
This campaign video was shortlisted by judges Paulo Coelho (UN Peace Ambassador), Ariana Huffington (Founder of the Huffington Post) and Professor Mohammed Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize). The whole world is voting to send one person to the World Economic Forum in a fortnight and put their case to world leaders. We want to end FGM within the next generation.
Putting the case of FGM to world leaders in Davos is an exceptional opportunity. Davos is the 5 day World Economic Forum meeting which brings together the global “great and good” – business leaders, politicians, scientists, religious leaders, philanthropists and journalists – to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world today. This is exactly the arena that FGM needs to be debated in!
Now the real work begins!
Could you PLEASE go to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/davos and vote there.
All you have to do is select your favourite video and click on the green thumbs up.
Please also forward this to as many of networks and friends as possible and ask them to vote also. You can vote as often as you like, right up to 11.59pm on Friday 15th January 2010.
For more information on FGM, please visit our website: http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/
To follow Julia’s journey, you can visit her blog http://jlm2009.blogspot.com or twitter: @JLM_FGM or even http://www.endfgmnow.org/