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Fgm Barbaric Practice
i read this piece the other day and wondered how on earth we ever got to the point where it exists at all. I am well aware it's been discussed before.
How can they stamp this out in one generation?
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// UN calls for global ban on female circumcision
Dec 20, 2012
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution Thursday calling for a global ban on female genital mutilation, a centuries-old practice stemming from the belief that circumcising girls controls women's sexuality and enhances fertility. //
Dec 20, 2012
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution Thursday calling for a global ban on female genital mutilation, a centuries-old practice stemming from the belief that circumcising girls controls women's sexuality and enhances fertility. //
The more attention is focused on the issue, the more effort is put into outreach education programmes, the more likely it is that you can stamp out the problem.
So it is a good thing that the UN and the EU have recently announced major initiatives to raise awareness of the practice. Legal restrictions and jail time are all very well, but this is a cultural/religious issue, and if you want to stamp out the practice within a generation then that will require cultural changes, through education and information and outreach, to change the hearts and minds within tribal heartlands. That requires co-ordinated international initiatives.
So it is a good thing that the UN and the EU have recently announced major initiatives to raise awareness of the practice. Legal restrictions and jail time are all very well, but this is a cultural/religious issue, and if you want to stamp out the practice within a generation then that will require cultural changes, through education and information and outreach, to change the hearts and minds within tribal heartlands. That requires co-ordinated international initiatives.
No reason why you shouldn't call circumcision male genital mutilation, sp1814,because it is, though I've never met any male who was traumatised by it. I've no idea why it's done either.
Anyway, smoking hasn't been stamped out in a generation but it's been greatly reduced, and attitudes to it have changed dramatically - 50 years ago few people could have cared less. So it is possible to change people's minds on things (though smoking is of course public, FGM is not).
Anyway, smoking hasn't been stamped out in a generation but it's been greatly reduced, and attitudes to it have changed dramatically - 50 years ago few people could have cared less. So it is possible to change people's minds on things (though smoking is of course public, FGM is not).
emmie
/// this isn't something like a bruise which is on the surface. ///
I admit that I know very little about this disgusting and barbaric practice but I would have though it could be noticed 'on the surface' and that they would not have to seek parental consent if the child had to medically examined during a visit or admission to a hospital or GP.
LazyGun's superb 12.33 post addresses most of what I mean, only better.
/// this isn't something like a bruise which is on the surface. ///
I admit that I know very little about this disgusting and barbaric practice but I would have though it could be noticed 'on the surface' and that they would not have to seek parental consent if the child had to medically examined during a visit or admission to a hospital or GP.
LazyGun's superb 12.33 post addresses most of what I mean, only better.
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AOG, no it won't show, not unless she ends up in hospital.
Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons."[2] FGM is practised as a cultural ritual by ethnic groups in 27 countries in sub-Saharan and Northeast Africa, and to a lesser extent in Asia, the Middle East and within immigrant communities elsewhere.[8] It is typically carried out, with or without anaesthesia, by a traditional circumciser using a knife or razor.[9] The age of the girls varies from weeks after birth to puberty; in half the countries for which figures were available in 2013, most girls were cut before the age of five.
AOG, no it won't show, not unless she ends up in hospital.
Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons."[2] FGM is practised as a cultural ritual by ethnic groups in 27 countries in sub-Saharan and Northeast Africa, and to a lesser extent in Asia, the Middle East and within immigrant communities elsewhere.[8] It is typically carried out, with or without anaesthesia, by a traditional circumciser using a knife or razor.[9] The age of the girls varies from weeks after birth to puberty; in half the countries for which figures were available in 2013, most girls were cut before the age of five.
the types as i have listed are completely and utterly different, and no one in their right mind would advocate cutting little girls this way, it can and does destroy the sensation of sexual pleasure, and can be incredibly painful for the rest of the girls life. Whilst circumcision for boys isn't done specially so they can't feel sexual pleasure, if it was it would never be allowed.
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