Despite the immediate and long term health and physical complications associated with female genital cutting, the practice remains deeply entrenched into cultural and religious beliefs. Female genital cutting also contributes to disempowerment of girls and women. For these reasons, female genital cutting is considered a harmful practice against human rights. To address the problem of …
Ministry of Employment, Social Affairs, and Family, Awarded NAFIS Network’s commitment to end Female Genital Cutting in this country and cherished the active collaboration between the Ministry and the Network. During the launching of Ministry’s new Strategic plan, Minister Hinda Jama accredited how NAFIS network is committed to ending this harmful practice and hailed the …
Ending Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting will not succeed without legislation and political commitment from the government. Anti–FGM/C awareness raising was enduring for the last 20 years, and now community is ready to abandon this practice; but for the absence of national policy committing what to do and what not, people are now moving from …
