| LC control no. | n 86842913 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dorkenoo, Efua |
| Variant(s) | Graham, Stella Efua Yorke, Stella Elliot Efua |
| Beginning date | 19490906 |
| Associated place | Geneva (Switzerland) |
| Located | England |
| Death date | 20141018 |
| Place of birth | Cape Coast (Ghana) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Female circumcision--Prevention Nursing Public health |
| Affiliation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development World Health Organization |
| Profession or occupation | Nurses Public health personnel |
| Found in | nuc86-69813: Female circumcision, excision, and infibulation, 1983 (hdg. on NSyU rept.: Graham, Stella Efua; usage: Stella Efua Graham) Her Female genital mutilation, 1992: t.p. (Efua Dorkenoo) pref. (Stella Efua Graham (later Dorkenoo)) Washington post WWW site, Oct. 24, 2014 (Efua Dorkenoo, who for more than three decades waged an international campaign to eradicate the practice known as female genital mutilation, died Oct. 18 [2014] in London, at 65; Stella Elliot Efua Yorke was born in Cape Coast, Ghana, on Sept. 6, 1949; settled in the 1960s in England; found work there as a nurse; became a public health specialist and dedicated the rest of her life to educating the public about the effects of FGM and to ending its practice; received a degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; in the 1980s, Ms. Dorkenoo founded the Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development, or Forward, a group that has sought to galvanize international efforts to end FGM; in the late 1990s and early 2000s, she worked for the World Health Organization in Geneva) |
| Associated language | eng |
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