Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development

FORWARD evolved from the Women's Action Group for Female Excision and Infibulation (WAGFEI), which comprised UK-based women concerned about FGM. Efua Dorkenoo coordinated the group between 1981 and 1983 under the auspices of the Minority Rights Group (MRG), and travelled to gather facts about FGM from various countries in Africa to compile into an MRG report on the practice.[http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/tribute-to-efua-dorkenoo-obe/ "Tribute to Efua Dorkenoo OBE – Founder of FORWARD"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402125340/http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/tribute-to-efua-dorkenoo-obe/ |date=2 April 2015 }}, 21 October 2014.

The organization runs several programmes in the UK and in East and West Africa.[http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/about "About us"], FORWARD; accessed 11 September 2011. According to FORWARD, there are around 100,000 women in the UK who have experienced FGM.Bryony Gordon, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090602232013/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3325469/Making-trouble-in-the-name-of-mutilated-women.html "Making trouble in the name of mutilated women"], The Daily Telegraph, 31 October 2005. The Executive Director is Naana Otoo-Oyortey.

• Comfort Momoh
• FGM in the UK
• My Body My Rules, a short film about female genital mutilation, developed by FORWARD

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• [http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/about FORWARD], The Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development, accessed 11 September 2011.
• [http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/resources/support/well-woman-clinics "Hospitals and Clinics in the UK offering Specialist FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) Services"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328211318/http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/resources/support/well-woman-clinics |date=28 March 2014 }}, FORWARD, accessed 11 September 2011.
• [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1033674.stm "'Harmful' tradition continues in Britain"], BBC News, 22 November 2000.
• [https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/04/female-gential-mutilation-uk-safeguarding-policies-undermining-welfare-study-finds 'UK's FGM safeguarding policies undermining welfare, study warns'], The Guardian, 4 February 2021.

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