Can't have it all: This dictator invented a fake HIV cure but... banned female genital cutting? Bhekisisa_MG reports. FGC
, a 2006 study conducted in six countries and published in explains to men in Somaliland the consequences of female genital mutilation on pregnancy. , banned FGC in the country, making the practice punishable by a hefty fine or a three-year jail term.
“We want to ensure that those Gambians who choose to do so enjoy their sociocultural rights as well as preserve the cultural and Islamic rights of our girls,” Ceesay explains. So far, the new government of President Adama Barrow has been almost entirely silent on the issue, not advocating for the law to be undone, but not pushing for prosecutions of those who practise FGC either.
Pro-cutting activists also frequently point to donor support and funding for anti-FGC advocacy as proof that the idea of banning the practice is a Western import designed to kill off traditional African cultural values. “When people know you accept them, that you are not condemning them for how they live, they begin to listen.”
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