Ms Ali will be at the festival on March 8 talking about how to end FGM. She will be joined by Lynne Featherstone MP as nicely as Efua Dorkenoo who is major the Finish FGM/Cutting Social Alter programme supported by the Department for International Advancement.
As properly as Ms Ali, the Duchess spoke to McElhone who will be doing a paper review at the festival on March 9 with Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti and Baroness Doreen Lawrence.
McElhone stated the festival was crucial “because it really is to pull back assumptions we live by and do not agree with [but] are not mindful we have internalised”. She additional that she spoke to the Duchess about her approaching perform, Fatal Attraction, which begins following month at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
The reception these days launched the festival, which is now in its fourth year. Camilla, dressed in a navy blue dress, spoke to the visitors like 3 teenagers from Mulberry School for Girls in Tower Hamlets, east London, which she visited last year.
Samihah Yasmin, 15, Jamila Ahmed, 14, and Nazifa Kamali, 15, proudly stated they have been feminists and searching forward to Malala Yousafzai’s talk on March eight which their college obtained 40 tickets for.
Nazifa spoke to the Duchess and said: “She was actually good, and she came to our school last 12 months. She brought up the go to when I spoke to her.”
The teenager additional she was excited about the festival. “Each and every yr it’s greater,” she explained.
The reception concluded with a speech by Jude Kelly, artistic director of the Southbank Centre, who thanked absolutely everyone for coming and for the Duchess’s assistance.
Ms Kelly praised Camilla for her curiosity in the anti-FGM campaign.
“For me the Duchess has courage and it’s really all-natural. She’s not afraid to talk about justice. She believes the monarchy is there to develop progress and she’s prepared to carry subjects to the fore,” Ms Kelly stated.
Camilla’s assistance comes following the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) nowadays wrote to Norman Baker, the minister accountable for the Government’s method to combat FGM.
In the letter to the minister, the EHRC expressed concern that the £100,000 fund identified for charities to increase awareness and educate the public about FGM is inadequate.
Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve, chairwoman of the EHRC, mentioned: “Even though the Government’s dedication [to end FGM] is welcome, we require a appropriately implemented and enforced nationwide strategy, appropriately funded, and which brings together all the proper authorities across the United kingdom if we are to successfully tackle this human rights violation.”
Camilla backs anti-FGM campaign
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