Gambia could be first country to reverse ban on female genital cutting

dylanmorgan , 3 months ago

I believe the actual name is “The Gambia.”

butwhyishischinabook , 3 months ago

Idk why you’re being downvoted, the country chose to be The Gambia, post independence, in order to avoid confusion with Zambia. Unless this changed after the fall of Jammeh?

dylanmorgan , 3 months ago

I checked Wikipedia, it still shows “The Gambia,” and the only change after Jammeh left is that it is no longer called an Islamic republic.

butwhyishischinabook , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Huh. Maybe people think this is some kind of British imposition? But like, it’s not.

autotldr Bot , 3 months ago

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The procedure, which also has been called female genital mutilation, includes the partial or full removal of external genitalia, often by traditional community practitioners with tools such as razor blades or at times by health workers.

Jaha Dukureh, the founder of Safe Hands for Girls, a local group that aims to end the practice, told The Associated Press she worried that other laws safeguarding women’s rights could be repealed next.

The president of the local Female Lawyers Association, Anna Njie, said the practice “has been proven to cause harm through medical evidence.”

UNICEF said earlier this month that some 30 million women globally have undergone the procedure in the past eight years, most of them in Africa but some in Asia and the Middle East.

“No religious text promotes or condones female genital mutilation,” the UNFPA report says, adding there is no benefit to the procedure.

Long term, it can lead to urinary tract infections, menstrual problems, pain, decreased sexual satisfaction and childbirth complications as well as depression, low self-esteem and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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