Fatimata Touré

Fatimata Touré is a women's rights activist and the head of the Regional Forum on Reconciliation and Peace in Gao, Mali.[1] She is also the head of Women's Action, Research, Study and Training Group, which works against fistula.[2]

International Women of Courage Award, 2014. United States First Lady Michelle Obama and Deputy Secretary Higginbottom with Fatimata Touré.

During the 2012 and 2013 occupation of Mali, she helped fistula patients relocate and find medical help after a hospital in Gao was attacked, as well as giving care and shelter to those forced into marriages or raped.[3][2][4] She also publicly spoke out against gender-based violence.[2] She documented the violence that was occurring, even as her own home was attacked.[4][2]

She received a 2014 International Women of Courage award.[1] Samantha Power, as America's Ambassador to the United Nations, mentioned her in a speech she gave in Mali in 2014.[5]

References

1. "Bios of 2014 Award Winners". state.gov. Archived from the original on 2014-03-07.
2. "Malian Woman Awarded for Promoting Health, Fighting Violence". usaid.gov. Archived from the original on 2017-06-02. Retrieved 2014-09-05.
3. "State Department Honors Malian Community Mobilizer with International Women of Courage Award". intrahealth.org.
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-19. Retrieved 2014-09-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. "Samantha Power's speech to Malian Civil Society «  Afronline – The Voice Of Africa". afronline.org.