FGM in Sierra Leone
2018; Elsevier BV; Volume: 391; Issue: 10119 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(18)30189-2
ISSN1474-547X
Autores Tópico(s)Genital Health and Disease
ResumoThree years after a 2014 ban against the practice of female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone, Sharmila Devi reports on the progress towards its eradication. Changing culture to end FGMWhen Ellen Johnson Sirleaf retired last month after 12 years in office in Liberia, she signed an executive order banning female genital mutilation (FGM) in the country for girls younger than 18 years. Her profile as Africa's first female president and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to advance women's rights and peace ensured her executive order got international media attention, thus shining needed light on a devastating practice. Globally, a staggering 200 million women and girls have undergone FGM, and UNICEF estimates that more than one in three girls between 15 and 19 years of age are currently affected. Full-Text PDF We all need to talk about FGM“I was cut when I was only a few months old so it is something I have no memory of. In Eritrea we call circumcision ‘girizat’. My father was an educated and modern man who disagreed with the belief and culture of cutting. My mother was from a traditional family. My father blamed my mother for my girizat. I am not angry with my mother for taking me to get cut; [she] hasn't been educated about it. She thought she was doing the best for me.” Full-Text PDF
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