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Cameroon: Traditions That Torture

Health & Wellness (tags: women, risks, children, africa, FGM/C, FGM, violence, abuse, society )

Madalena
- 734 days ago - fgmnetwork.org

Painful! This is the word that best describes the feeling of a woman undergoing female circumcision. The act, involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other parts to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious o

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Bea B. (248)

Saturday December 22, 2007, 5:29 pm
Just horrible, and those are women that are doing this? Why? What for?Religous reasons? Man made laws! Must be stopped!

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Past Member (0)

Saturday December 22, 2007, 7:47 pm
This is a sect of very old religous rites! It must be stopped NOW!

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Sammantha L. (126)

Sunday December 23, 2007, 9:36 am
As more people become educated and aware of this subject, the hope for abolishing this practice grows.

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Cecelia L. (100)

Sunday December 23, 2007, 8:07 pm
UGH!!!! SICK!!! This needs to stop! So sad...

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Michael W. (72)

Sunday December 23, 2007, 10:35 pm
Unfortunately, these are women on women rituals. But Africa is growing up and the more information these people receive, the more they realize there are other choices, that there are others outside Africa who know whats happening the better chance there is to stop these practices. There are women who do not agree with these tribal rituals. They are banding together running for office gaining power in Rwanda, South Africa, Ghana and Kenya against great personal danger but with undaunted courage.

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