by Lizan Nijkrake | 3 Jun 2020 | Health and Wellness, Human Rights, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows, Women's rights
The world was making progress in curbing female genital mutilation, a rite of passage to womanhood in many countries. COVID-19 is setting back those efforts. A six-year-old girl screams in pain while being cut in Somalia, 17 June 1996 (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju) Rhobi...
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by Ben Barber | 3 May 2019 | Africa, Americas, Asia, Eyewitness
Female genital mutilation persists in many countries. While efforts to curb the rite are progressing worldwide, the practice has gained ground in the U.S. The ancient rite of cutting the genital organs of young girls is declining worldwide as international efforts to...
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by News Decoder | 8 Oct 2015 | Africa, Middle East
By Nelson Graves Last week we wrote about female genital cutting in Uganda and laid down a challenge to readers. We said: Help the Sabiny people end their age-old tradition of cutting a girl’s clitoris and labia by proposing a substitute rite-of-passage that...
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by News Decoder | 2 Oct 2015 | Africa, Women's rights
By Nelson Graves Earlier this week, News-Decoder published an article about a traditional rite-of-passage for millions of girls and women in Africa and part of the Middle East. “In Uganda, ending female genital cutting” has generated a lot of interest...
by Pauline Bock | 29 Sep 2015 | Africa, Human Rights, Women's rights
Young girls in an ethnic group in Uganda have undergone genital cutting for generations. An NGO is working to end the practice and empower girls. A six-year-old girl screams while being cut in Somalia, 17 June 1996. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju) Esther Chebet recalls...
