Nahid Toubia

Nahid Toubia (* 1951 in Khartoum ) is a Sudan- born doctor and human rights advocate who is particularly committed to fighting female genital mutilation (FGM). She is the first female surgeon to practice in Sudan.

Life

Nahid Toubia studied medicine in Egypt and Great Britain . In 1981 she became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England . In 1985 she returned to Sudan, where she worked for many years as the head of the pediatric surgery department of a teaching hospital in the capital, Khartoum . Since the health care was poor in some areas, she set up her own emergency clinic. However, the unstable political conditions in Sudan forced them to leave the country again after a few years.

In 1994, together with some African immigrants in the USA, she founded the international organization "Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO)", the aim of which is to study all aspects of the sexual and reproductive health of women, especially in Africa, to promote and protect. In order to eliminate FGM, RAINBO advocates the independence of women (self-empowerment) and social change. The organization has offices in New York City and London and operates in Uganda, South Africa, Gambia, and Nigeria.

Nahid Toubia is an associate professor at Columbia University in New York and a member of review commissions at WHO , UNICEF , UNDP and Human Rights Watch .

Publications (selection)

Nahid Toubia, G. Jacobs: Female genital mutilation: a call for global action. Women Ink 1993.
Nahid Toubia, Anika Rahman: Female Genital Mutilation: A Practical Guide to Worldwide Laws & Policies: A Guide to Laws and Policies Worldwide . Zed Books, 2000, ISBN 1-85649-772-0 .

Technical article

Female Circumcision as a Public Health Issue. In: The New England Journal of Medicine . 331, 1994, pp. 712-716, doi: 10.1056 / NEJM199409153311106 .
with Kirsten Moore, Kate Randolph, Elizabeth Kirberger: The Synergistic Relationship between Health and Human Rights: A Case Study Using Female Genital Mutilation. In: Health and Human Rights International Journal. Vol. 2, No. 2, Harvard College, pp. 137-146.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Women learning partnership ( Memento from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Priya Shetty: Nahid Toubia. In: The Lancet. Volume 369, No. 9564, March 10, 2007, p. 819.
↑ BBC News: Changing attitude towards female circumcision. April 2002
^ Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (Rainbo)

personal data
SURNAME	Toubia, Nahid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Sudanese human and women's rights activist, doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Khartoum

[:0-1] Women learning partnership ( Memento from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Priya Shetty: Nahid Toubia. In: The Lancet. Volume 369, No. 9564, March 10, 2007, p. 819.

[3] BBC News: Changing attitude towards female circumcision. April 2002

[4] Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (Rainbo)