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18 Sep 2018 - NPWJ News Digest on FGM & women's rights
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Two Sisters Bled to Death in Somalia After a Female Genital Mutilation Procedure
TIME, 18 Sep 2018
Two sisters bled to death in Somalia after they were forced to undergo female genital mutilation earlier this week, the latest tragic death in a country where most women and girls are subjected to the procedure, CNN reports. Aasiyo Abdi Warsame, 10 and her sister, Khadijo, 11, were cut in a remote village in Puntland State in the northeast on Sept. 11. They continued to bleed 24 hours after the procedure, according Aden Mohamed, director of the Somalia’s women’s rights group Galkayo Education Center for Peace and Development.
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Victims speak on living with scars of outlawed but rampant FGM
Daily Nation, 18 Sep 2018
Many are suffering in silence after undergoing unsuccessful-forced female cut. Their faces shine with smiles, but behind the smiles are stories of trauma not every woman has the courage to tell. Nastehe Aftin, Sadia Hussein and Salima Ware are just three of the thousands of victims of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) from Tana River County. Despite being outlawed, the practice is still rampant in the county. These women have risked communal wrath to speak out so as to save other girls from the practice.
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Morocco criminalises violence against women and sexual harassment
Aljazeera, 17 Sep 2018
A new law in Morocco criminalising violence against women goes into effect on Wednesday, in what critics say is merely a first step in the right direction. Approved by parliament on February 14, the bill imposes tougher penalties on perpetrators of various types of violence committed both in the private and public spheres, including rape, sexual harassment and domestic abuse.
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Burkina Faso botched FGM leaves 50 girls in hospital
BBC News, 17 Sep 2018
Around 50 girls are being treated in hospital in Burkina Faso after botched circumcisions, or female genital mutilation (FGM), a minister says. Not all girls who underwent the circumcision have been traced, Minister of Women's Affairs, Laurence Marshall Ilboudo, said. Two 60-year-old women, along with the parents of some of the girls, have been arrested. FGM has been illegal in Burkina Faso since 1996. Offenders face up to three years in prison.
About three-quarters of women and girls in Burkina Faso have undergone circumcision, but only 9% favour the practice, according to UN children agency Unicef.
Third Girl Dies in Somalia After Genital Mutilation
VOA, 17 Sep 2018
A 10-year-old girl has died in Somalia due to complications from female genital mutilation (FGM). Mumtaz Qorane was the third child to die in the country this week after undergoing the practice, which is also known as female circumcision.
Dr. Mohamed Hussein Aden tells VOA's Somali service that the girl underwent the procedure three days ago in the countryside near the town of Goldogob, and contracted tetanus afterward.
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