Female genital mutilation is on the rise in Africa: disturbing new trends are driving up the numbers: Thirteen-year-old Salamatu Jalloh had her whole future to look forward to. But in January 2023, her lifeless body was found wrapped in a pink and blue shroud on an earthen floor in a village in north-west Sierra Leone. …
The Gambia may allow female genital mutilation again – another sign of a global trend eroding women’s rights: The Gambia’s ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) since 2015 is under threat. Proposed changes before parliament could permit medicalised female genital cutting and allow it for consenting adults. This potential reversal has thrust the country into …
Female genital mutilation rates peak in Kenya during school holidays – an alternative option offers a solution: A past anti-FGM campaign meeting in Kajiado County, Kenya. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images Female genital mutilation is a practice deeply rooted in cultural traditions around the world. The World Health Organisation defines it as comprising all procedures …
How practices, and meaning, of genital cutting are changing in Tanzania: Circumcision of both boys and girls is practiced by the Maasai in Tanzania. Dai Kurokawa/EPA Three decades into a global campaign to end the cultural practice of female genital mutilation and cutting worldwide, the desired change is yet to be achieved. Various studies suggest …
Elisabeth Ubbe: Sweedish Artist and Activist on Female Genital Mutilation, Child Marriage, and Cross Cultural Breast Feeding – a Africa interest event taking place on 2017-11-28 17:30:00 in United States College Center Villard Room Elisabeth Ubbe is an award-winning photojournalist whose work focuses on womens issues, equality, social justice and sustainable development. In recent years, …
Claims female genital mutilation can have evolutionary benefits are unproven and potentially damaging: A new research paper has made the strange claim that female genital mutilation (FGM) can have an evolutionary benefit in societies where most women are subjected to the practice. FGM involves altering or injuring the female genitalia for non-medical reasons, and is …
South Africa in the news: Popular British TV drama to feature female genital mutilation plotline: In February’s issue of Cosmopolitan South Africa, the Grammy winning songstress says it was important to put friendship first as a way to build intimacy. She adds, “Knowing that you’ll always have the friendship and that you can always go …