There's a feeling in the air. That something important is about to happen a celebration is underway for the girls who will soon become women in the eyes of their people the career in southern Kenya it's a rite of passage rooted in at least 2000 years of tradition. Some call it circumcision others female genital mutilation or FGM.
Whatever the name the reality is the same later. That day girls under the age of 16 will have their clitoris cut out every day 6000 girls. Many of them in sub-saharan Africa will endure procedures like. This one it's the beginning and the end of the very existence of women Zainab Bangura is an activist and a politician from Sierra Leone. Than 90% of the women undergo FGM. You do not become a member of that ceremony.
You can't have a husband. You can't even have. Somebody to marry. You from the Christians become men don't marry women who have. Sixteen-year-old rayel is about to undergo the ceremony her uncle says girls must be cut for a very simple reason tradition is to tame women's extra for done not to sleep around so enough Banga Banga sorry. Even women who suffered the agony and lifelong consequences of FGM defend the practice rails mother bouquet. I see people refusing circumcision and not surprised. Because I was circumcised.
I find it surprising since it's our culture and tradition but the fact is this tradition common in more. Than two dozen African countries inflicts agony on nearly two million girls a year. It also dooms. Many to a lifetime of pain infertility and deadly infections especially for those who are forced to undergo an extreme form of FGM known as infibulation in which the entire genitalia is removed and then sewn up. Because I was the youngest and I was afraid.
They grabbed. Me first after. That they all held. Me down and cut. Me it hurts so much and I screamed. I can still remember the lady who did. It to me this simulation suggests the girls are often bound and blindfolded blades are not sterile the girls get no anesthesia a World Health Organization study shows.
That the trauma and reoccurring infections from genital mutilation often lead to infertility what's worse. It increases up to 50% the likelihood. That the woman or her baby will die in childbirth the practice also leads to hemorrhage shock and makes a woman and therefore her children far. More susceptible to HIV.
Whatever the name the reality is the same later. That day girls under the age of 16 will have their clitoris cut out every day 6000 girls. Many of them in sub-saharan Africa will endure procedures like. This one it's the beginning and the end of the very existence of women Zainab Bangura is an activist and a politician from Sierra Leone. Than 90% of the women undergo FGM. You do not become a member of that ceremony.
You can't have a husband. You can't even have. Somebody to marry. You from the Christians become men don't marry women who have. Sixteen-year-old rayel is about to undergo the ceremony her uncle says girls must be cut for a very simple reason tradition is to tame women's extra for done not to sleep around so enough Banga Banga sorry. Even women who suffered the agony and lifelong consequences of FGM defend the practice rails mother bouquet. I see people refusing circumcision and not surprised. Because I was circumcised.
I find it surprising since it's our culture and tradition but the fact is this tradition common in more. Than two dozen African countries inflicts agony on nearly two million girls a year. It also dooms. Many to a lifetime of pain infertility and deadly infections especially for those who are forced to undergo an extreme form of FGM known as infibulation in which the entire genitalia is removed and then sewn up. Because I was the youngest and I was afraid.
They grabbed. Me first after. That they all held. Me down and cut. Me it hurts so much and I screamed. I can still remember the lady who did. It to me this simulation suggests the girls are often bound and blindfolded blades are not sterile the girls get no anesthesia a World Health Organization study shows.
That the trauma and reoccurring infections from genital mutilation often lead to infertility what's worse. It increases up to 50% the likelihood. That the woman or her baby will die in childbirth the practice also leads to hemorrhage shock and makes a woman and therefore her children far. More susceptible to HIV.
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