Musu Bakoto Sawo

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Musu Bakoto Sawo (born around 1990 / 1991 in Gambia ) is a Gambian lawyer and women's rights activist .

Life

As a young girl, like the majority of girls in The Gambia, she was a victim of female genital mutilation around the age of five or six . According to her own statements, she campaigned for children's rights from the age of nine or ten. She joined the child rights group Voice of the Young , which was part of the Child Protection Alliance (CPA).

She was married at the age of 14. Her husband was 27 years old. At 21 or 22 she was a widow and inherited nothing.

She obtained a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Gambia and subsequently a Master of Laws in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa from the University of Pretoria (South Africa) in 2014 .

Sawo worked as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Gambia. She was also from 2015 Program Officer ( Program Officer ) of the Gambian section of The Girls' Generation , which campaigns against female genital mutilation and at least 2017 National Coordinator ( National Coordinator ) of the NGO Think Young Women . She was also a founding member of the Children and Community Initiative for Development (CAID).

In mid-2018 she was appointed Deputy Executive Secretary of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission to review the government of the Gambian President Yahya Jammeh .

Awards

In December 2017 she was one of two winners of the Vera Chirwa Award from the Center for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria for her work against female genital mutilation.

On April 13, 2018, she received a Commonwealth Point of Light Award from the British Government , presented by the British High Commissioner in Gambia, Sharon Wardle .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Musu Bakoto Sawo. Accessed September 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Africa: Let Children Make Continent a Better Place. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Musu Bakoto Sawo. In: Women Deliver. Retrieved September 7, 2019 (American English).
  4. ^ Gambia: A Conversation On Truth and Reconciliation in the Gambia. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Gambia: First Lady Launches Report On Orphans, Other Vulnerable Children. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b c Alexis K. Barnes, “Child Marriage: Musu Speaks. Retrieved September 7, 2019 (American English).
  7. ^ Alumni Diaries. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b Gambia: TYW Program Manager Optimistic About Enactment of Law to Criminalize FGM. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Musu Bakoto Sawo. Accessed September 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa Alumnae receive the 2017 Vera Chirwa Award for groundbreaking work in South Africa and The Gambia. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b c The secretariat. Retrieved September 7, 2019 (American English).
  12. ↑ a b Musu Bakoto Sawo, representing The Gambia, lends her expertise as a law lecturer to organizations advocating against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Retrieved September 5, 2019 .
  13. ↑ TYW sensitises artists on dangers of FGM and Child Marriage. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bakoto Sawo, Musu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian lawyer and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1990 or around 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Gambia