Why Do They Need A Virgin?

Both girls said their parents told them not to talk about the procedure. The head of the “Soweis” in Kukuna, Mammy Balia, said she couldn’t identify the person that initiated the girls and told Bangura that the girls were brought over from Guinea. Yet two years after Submission and the fatwa, amid questions over her original asylum application, she left Holland for a job at a Right-wing think-tank in Washington. Bangura said votes to outlaw the procedure could have meant the end of political careers and possible influence over the FGM practitioners who wield power in their communities. The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women. Globally, it is estimated that at least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of FGM. About 15 percent of women who undergo FGM have this form. Older women should always be included in discussing alternative rites of passage to womanhood as they uphold old customs.

Each year, approximately 2 million women and girls across the world experience this surgery that ranges from a small incision on the clitoris to complete removal of all external genitalia. Type 4 - other: all other harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non-medical purposes - eg, pricking, piercing, incising, scraping and cauterising the genital area. Sierra Leone is one of 28 African countries where female genital mutilation is practised. There needs to be more than one person working in a community. Actually now is when we need to do more. In the long-term, consequences may include recurrent bladder and urinary tract infections, cysts, infertility, increased risk of childbirth complications and newborn deaths, and the need for later surgeries. As opposed to medical need? Her alleged longstanding deception of parents (who claim they did not know, some reports suggest) and of the local medical community should also influence the severity of her punishment.

It is usually performed by traditional cutters who may use anything from razor blades to scissors, broken glass, tin can lids or ceremonial knives. Sitting or even walking can bruise and even re-open the scar tissue due to the constant rubbing of clothing. Some Member States have seen an increase in this form of gender-based violence due to migration of people from countries where FGM is practiced. A network of experts and key actors on gender-based violence - including FGM - should be established. The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection through its regional offices has been doing a lot of sensitization and advocacy on ending inimical and harmful cultural practices including inhuman widowhood rites, child /forced marriages and FGM among others. The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) mandatory reporting duty came into force on the 31st October 2015. The Home Office has published procedural information on the duty of help health and social care professionals, teachers and the police prepare.

Responding deputies described conditions in the home as foul-smelling with some kids chained to a bed and suffering injuries as a result. Many health problems result from the surgery. For instance, a plastic surgeon who removed a healthy 33-year-old woman’s clitoris, at her request, wasn’t prosecuted under the FGM Act and neither was the psychiatrist who cleared her for the surgery. While I am not trying to discount those who argue against male circumcision, I do want to confort those who try to compare the two. It stated that FGM is a cultural phenomenon and is not religious. Where is FGM practiced? FGM reinforces cycles of discrimination and poverty. Activist against FGM and supporter of the African NGO Tareto Maa, Kilgoris, Kenya, refuge for girls fleeing FGM and early enforced marriage. However, the Samburu dialect is spoken more rapidly than Maa, the language of the Masai. But there is growing evidence that it may exist in many more Asian and Middle Eastern countries than commonly thought. The cartoons may be accompanied by a single-sentence caption which may be the spoken words of a character. In this study, in the univariate analysis, FGM was significantly associated with age, but this difference was not significant in the multivariate analysis.