How to end female genital mutilation? UN seeks to eradicate practice by 2030 • FRANCE 24 English

How to end female genital mutilation? UN seeks to eradicate practice by 2030 • FRANCE 24 English

Young girls between the ages of 7 and 11 sing songs and Rhymes urging their parents to save them from FGM it’s part of an alternative right of passage ceremony organized by a local nonprofit in Kenya’s Ki County while Kenya banned female genital mutilation in 2011 the practice persists

Particularly in KY where 80% of the time it’s carried out by healthcare workers because of the complexity because of the medicalization and the secrecy and our parents really feel like they know what they are doing it’s very complex in Kiss Doris cuno on somu no longer does the procedure but spent

Years performing it on young girls in medical establishments at the time she believed it to be a safer way of preserving the cultural custom that she herself went through as a teenager one reason was that uh if you were uncircumcised they felt that you would have be sexually active unnecessarily and so

It’s like when you are circumcised like they reduce the the libido a bit yeah that was one of the major reasons but even when FGM is carried out in a sterilized environment there are still major risks to the girls physical psychological and sexual health I went through the cut but I

Wouldn’t want my children to have to go through the same thing at a seminar I attended we were taught about the complications women who were cut had when giving birth I experienced the same thing when I went to the hospital to give birth UNICEF warns that the increase in

Medicalized FGM could ruin the progress Kenya has made in stopping the practice according to Kenyan authorities FGM rates fell to just 15% in 2022 but NOS say the real figure could be much higher I

Today is International Day to end female genital mutilation. 80% of such procedures are performed on the African continent where, paradoxically, laws against the practice are most common. The United Nations has set the ambitious goal of eradicating all forms of the practice by 2030. Kenya is one of 28 countries on the continent where the practice is illegal.
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