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Munich, April 1977: imagine a new German feminist magazine, EMMA, and a graduate student eagerly inspecting it. She stops, taken aback, at the headline: Klitorisbeschneidung – clitoridectomy. What can that be? She learns, along with 150,000 other subscribers whose mail-sacks of letters overwhelm the editors. The journalist had concluded with an appeal from Khartoum: “Here no one talks about it. The media are silent. Our only hope lies in an outcry from abroad.” It came. What can we do, EMMA’s readers asked. What they did: between 1977 and the early 80s in eight German cities, groups formed to support African activists. The German women’s medical association invited Dr. Asma el Dareer to address their annual convention; the physician’s dissertation marked the first epidemiological study of infibulation in the Sudan. Awa Thiam, founder of CAMS – Commission for the Abolition of Sexual Mutilation -- in Senegal, became the first keynote speaker for Terre des Femmes, today’s leading German NGO for women’s human rights; and Efua Dorkenoo in the UK, who founded FORWARD in 1983, provided the template for FORWARD – Germany (founded 1998). Fast forward to today: finally overcoming the three main obstacles to ending FGM – inadequate communication, lack of a feminist analysis, and miserly funding – a broader world movement is rapidly evolving thanks to government aid, social media, and the continued dedication of NGOs and individuals calling for an end to this widespread abuse.