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Isatou Touray

Isatou Touray

HRD, Executive Director
Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP)

Isatou Touray Testimony

At GAMCOTRAP, in our bid to address inequalities and advance the interests of women, we engage at different levels in tracking account- ability by gender, interrogating the state regarding women’s rights and engaging with the people to realise substantive equality.

Isatou Touray

Dr Isatou Touray is a Gambian woman human rights defender and Executive Director of the Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP). She works tirelessly for the well-being of girls by ending harmful traditional practices like FGM and child marriage. She faces ongoing harassment and has been arrested on the 11th October 2010 as a result of her efforts which challenge powerful interests in The Gambia.

Human rights defenders (HRDs) in The Gambia operate in a widespread climate of fear, suspicion and self-censorship. Freedom of expression is gravely limited and human rights defenders and journalists critical of the government are under threat.

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Isatou Touray