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Iniciación sin mutilación
Posted in Africa, Video Tagged with: Anti-FGM, Campaign, FGM, Fundación Wassu, Gambia, Initiation, Knowledge Transfer, NGO, No Mutilation
Tostan: Walking the Path of Unity
In early 2008, the community of Diégoune in the Casamance region of Southern Senegal made the collective decision to promote the health of their children and abandon the practice of female genital cutting (FGC). ‘Walking the Path of Unity’ was…
Tostan: Futa, It Is Time To Talk
Futa, It Is Time To Talk (Fuuta, Le Temps Est Venu D’en Parler) Harouna, a young Fulani from northern Senegal, is upset by the death of a close friend who died from the health consequences of undergoing female genital cutting…
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
