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Agnes Arnold Forster
Agnes Arnold-Forster works for the charity SafeHands for Mothers and is a postgraduate student at UCL and Imperial College
![A young woman walks past a campaign banner against female genital mutilation [FGM] at the venue of an International conference, 16 September 2004 in Nairobi.](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2013/03/06/10/51314410.jpg?quality=75&width=640&crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&auto=webp)