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May 2022
34m 24s

The Nimco Ali One

Bbc Radio 4
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Nick Robinson speaks to Nimco Ali, the government's adviser on violence against women and girls about her campaigning on female genital mutilation, calls for street harassment to be made a crime and her friendship with Carrie Johnson.

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