pHer Horizon Fund seeks 100m to stop practice harming 230m women and girls globally /ppFrontline activists and leaders in the fight against female genital mutilation, which has affected more than a href"https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/female-genital-mutilation/"230 million women and girls worldwide/a, have welcomed an unprecedented 15.5m (11.4m) fund aimed at creating unstoppable momentum to finally end the practice./ppThe launch of the fund comes as a href"https://equalitynow.org/resource/reports/global-backlash-against-womens-and-girls-rights-words-and-deeds-update-2025/"womens rights are increasingly under attack/a and donor funding is in sharp decline, particularly for work led by FGM survivors in local communities. It is thought to be the largest single philanthropic contribution to ending the practice of FGM./p a href"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/11/15m-fund-launched-to-create-unstoppable-momentum-to-end-fgm-worldwide"/a

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