Comfort is a public health specialist who campaigns against Female Genital Mutilation. She is the only FGM specialist midwife in the UK, and she established and runs the African Well Woman’s Clinic since 1997. This clinic provides advice, information, counselling and remedial surgical procedures for women who have undergone FGM. She has written and spoken widely on this subject in order to raise awareness of violence against women, and she has been a valuable resource and source of information to health and social care professionals within the community. She always goes the extra mile on behalf of women and children, and is admired and trusted by all those she works with.
The Refugee Women’s Resource Project (RWRP) was established in 2000 by Asylum Aid – a registered charity providing free legal advice and representation to people seeking asylum – with the aim of addressing the ingrained gender discrimination experienced by women seeking protection in the UK from persecution and human rights abuses abroad.
Nominees
Claudia Ferreira da Silva
Davina James-Hanman
Laurie Matthew
Nadia Siddiqui
Pippa Simpson
Sue George
Ashiana Network
Break the Silence: Stop the Violence
Corby Women’s Theatre Group
Deaf Women Against Violence & WISE Women
Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO)
The Knowle West Domestic Abuse Project
Low Newton Women’s Support Group
UNIFEM in London
UNISON (Northern Ireland) Women’s Committee
Walsall Domestic Forum
Women and Girls Network