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For the pastthree decades, Lightfoot-Klein has been speaking out against Female Genital Mutilation, violently perpetrated on well over a hundred million women in 28 African and Arab counties.

Her ground breaking, in-depth study of this subject, conducted over a 6 year period in sub-Saharan Africa, shed light on these secret rituals, which had until then remained hidden from the Western world. Her empathic understanding of the issues involved in their continuation versus their eventual, hoped for abandonment, remains to this day unsurpassed.

Lightfoot-Klein's writings on this difficult and perplexing subject have been instrumental in breaking down the taboos that have enshrouded the practices for millennia.

Hanny Lightfoot-Klein now devotes a considerable part of her time to making the knowledge and insights she has accumulated over the past 31 years of service as (in the United States and Europe)to asylum seekers:

• Who faceHonor Killing if they are made to return to their country,
• Who faceGenital Mutilation and/orForced Marriage,
• Who have been subjected toGenital Cutting and are seeking tokeep their daughters safe from the fate that they themselves havesuffered,
• Who have endured severeAbuse in the form ofBeatings andRape,
• Whosephysical and emotional health has been seriously impaired bygenital mutilation and/or other forms ofviolence to which they have been subjected, and which requiremedical and psychiatric treatment that they would be unable to obtain if forcibly returned to their own countries, and
• Who are known to have beenpolitical activists against Female Genital Mutilation and Forced Marriage, and who facetorture anddeathif forcibly returned to their own countries.

For a list of Lightfoot-Klein'squalifications asexpert witness and a Selected List of Publications and Presentations at National and International Conferences,click here.