CSW62 side event: It’s Time! A collaboration to end child early forced marriage (CEFM) and female genital mutilation (FGM)

Date: Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 12.30–2 p.m. EDT
Location: Roosevelt House, 49 East 65th Street (between Park and Madison avenues), New York, NY 10065

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Featuring:

• Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women
• Jaha Dukureh, UN Goodwill Ambassador and Nobel Peace Prize nominee
• Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, African Union Goodwill Ambassador
• Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation
• Stephanie Sinclair, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and founder of Too Young to Wed

And girl activists, including:

• Ya Kaka and Hauwa (last names withheld) who survived abduction by Boko Haram in 2014
• Zahra Wakilzada, Girls Learn International leader and member of the Afghan Women’s Writing Project
• Sioni Ayubu, co-writer of the short film Black Head Cow