It wasn't long ago that women's rights activists struggled to be accepted in the human rights movement. HRW's Liesl Gerntholtz and Dorothy Thomas look at how far we've come. Reported by Miriam Wells.
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When Dashty (right) was 12, she suffered Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). She says she spent 20 days recovering in bed from the traumatic operation. Meer Ghasem, Iraqi Kurdistan.
It wasn't long ago that women's rights activists struggled to be accepted in the human rights movement. HRW's Liesl Gerntholtz and Dorothy Thomas look at how far we've come. Reported by Miriam Wells.
