Uganda bans female genital mutilation

  1. Posted on Friday 11 December 2009 - 09:20
    AfricaNews editor
    AfricaNews Monitoring desk
    Ugandan MPs have voted to outlaw female genital mutilation - also known as female circumcision. Anyone convicted of the practice, which involves cutting off a girl's clitoris, will face 10 years in jail or a life sentence if a victim dies. Rights groups welcomed the move, but urged awareness campaigns to ensure the centuries-old practice stops.
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    The BBC report that it is not officially condoned but is still practised in several rural areas. The act is still practised by the Sabiny, some Karamojong sub-groups and the Pokot in eastern Uganda and the Nubi people of West Nile.

    Genital mutilation is seen in some countries as a way to ensure virginity and to make a woman suitable for marriage.

    MP Alice Alaso said the move was "a very significant achievement".

    "It's a very bad practice. It's cruel, it traumatises people, it's led children to drop out of school, it's a health hazard," she told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.

    "This is a warning signal - whoever dares practice female genital mutilation will be subject to the law."

    Another MP, Lulume Bayiga, said the law would liberate both men and women - who often face being ostracised for shunning the custom.

    "Women will start for the first time to enjoy sex and it's going to do away with various diseases," he said.

    According to the UN, about three million girls each year in Africa are at risk of genital mutilation, with more than 91 million girls and women living with the consequences of the procedure.

    These include bleeding, shock, infections and a higher rate of death for new-born babies.
     

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  1. Posted on Saturday 12 December 2009 09:28
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    It is right decision and long over due. I congrats all those mps who have voted for banning this practice.

    Human body itself is a mircale. One on/off gene changes gender traits!!!!!!!!!!!..

    There are lot of practice going on since thousands of years but that doesnot mean that those are right thing to do...

    One Gene Can Change Gender Traits
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