FORWARD

Unit 4
765 - 767 Harrow Road
London
NW10 5NY

Tel: 020 8960 4000
Web: www.forwarduk.org.uk

FORWARD (the Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development) is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) that works to advance and protect the sexual and reproductive health and human rights of African girls and women.

FORWARD works to promote action to bring about positive social change to enhance the well being and protect the dignity of African girls and women globally. FORWARD is committed to eliminating harmful gender-based discriminatory practices that violate the sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and women, such as female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage.

FORWARD works to eliminate the practice of female genital mutilation and to provide support to women affected by FGM. FORWARD has recently formally incorporated other associated issues, in particular vesico-vagina and recto-vagina fistulae and child and forced marriage.

FORWARD envisages a world in which all African girls and women are accorded their inalienable rights to dignity, equality and freedom from gender based discrimination and violence - a world in which they are able to attain and enjoy the highest level of physical, mental and social well-being, irrespective of their age, culture, religion or socio-economic status.

FORWARD effects change through developing capacity, and by building evidence to influence policy and challenge practices that undermine their health, human dignity and sexual rights.