AFRICA/SUDAN – Female genital mutilation: More than a thousand Sudanese communities abandon the cruel practice

AFRICA/SUDAN – Feminine genital mutilation: Greater than a thousand Sudanese communities abandon the merciless follow

Wednesday, 12 April 2023

Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – In Sudan, nearly 9 out of ten girls are subjected to feminine genital mutilation (FGM), even if a regulation penalizing this follow has been in power since July 2020. Within the nation, along with violence, abuse and exploitation, a 3rd of women between the ages of 0 and 14 have been subjected to FGM.
In keeping with a current report by the United Nations Kids’s Fund (UNICEF), the phenomenon, which violates the elemental rights of tens of millions of human beings around the globe, is acknowledged as a “crime” after the modification to Article 141 of the Penal Code. And it’s exactly within the African nation the place progress is starting to be seen, with greater than 1,300 communities all through Sudan which have publicly declared the top of the follow of feminine genital mutilation.
As well as, based on the 2018 Report of the Easy Spatial Survey Technique in Sudan, there was a lower within the prevalence of FGM from 89% in 2010 to 83.9% in 2018. The group behind the research factors out that, because of help for the group dialogue, social mobilization companies and the promotion of political advocacy, greater than 200 communities from 20 cities have dedicated to abandoning FGM.
The World Well being Group estimates that there are greater than 200 million girls who’ve undergone genital mutilation in international locations the place the follow is concentrated, and a few 3 million ladies are susceptible to struggling it annually, most earlier than the age of 15. The follow is prevalent primarily in some 30 international locations in Africa and the Center East, but additionally in some international locations in Asia and Latin America and amongst communities in these areas.
The truth that Sudan continues to obtain refugees from neighboring Ethiopia, Eritrea, Chad, the Central African Republic and South Sudan, and lately additionally from Syria and Yemen, makes the problem of kid safety more and more delicate. Humanitarian wants proceed to extend, fueled by varied elements such because the financial disaster, meals insecurity, floods, epidemics and intercommunal violence. And it’s also inside these advanced emergencies that the safety of kids from violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect is challenged time and again. (AP) (Agenzia Fides, 12/4/2023)

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