THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET is a gripping feature documentary that examines the practice of female genital mutilation in Kenya and the pioneering African women who are bravely reversing the tradition. Winner of the Amnesty International DOEN Award at IDFA and…
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Norró, a story of female genital mutilation
Synopsis: “My name is Norró and I am a 12-year-old Dassanetch girl. Not long ago they circumcised me and also my sister Nohode. It is a very ancient custom in my land. If we didn’t have it done, nobody would…
Posted in Africa, Video Tagged with: Dassanetch, Documentary, Ethiopia, FGM, Kenya, Rite of Passage, Sudan, Tradition
Kenya – L’excision une lutte au Quotidien
27, 1% des femmes kenyanes sont excisées mais il existe de fortes disparités entre les ethnies : chez les massaï et les kisii par exemple, 96% des femmes sont mutilées. Le pays dispose d’une loi, adoptée en 2001 et révisée…
360º – Geo Kenya, le village des femmes
Dans le village d’Umoja, qui jouxte le parc national de Samburu, au Kenya, il n’y a que des femmes. Fuyant les mutilations sexuelles, les mariages forcés et la violence conjugale, elles ont trouvé refuge dans ce havre de paix fondé…
I will never be cut’: Kenyan girls fight back against genital mutilation
Nancy is a Kenyan girl about to face a brutal passage to womanhood. Narrated by Angela Griffin. This video is one of a series of investigative documentaries about poverty, commissioned and editorially controlled by Guardian Films, produced in association with…
Posted in Video Tagged with: Alternative ceremony, Dowry, Education, FGM, Grassroots, Kenya, Marriage, NGO, Pokot, Social Pressure, Stigma
