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Uganda: Female genital mutilation practioners surrender tools
http://www.theafricareport.com/east-horn-africa/uganda-female-genital-mutilation-practioners-surrender-tools.html
Uganda seems to be winning its war against female genital mutilation, with more than 70 "local surgeons", who have been carrying out the practice denouncing it and surrendering their crude scalpels to authorities.
The East African nation outlawed female genital mutilation (FGM) four years ago after an outcry from legislators and human rights activists, but the practice remains common in outlying and remote areas.
The practitioners, mostly elderly females who have for long been practicing their craft on girls in north east Uganda's Karamoja region, told Uganda's Minister of State for Gender and Culture, Rukia Nakadama that they would never do it again.
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The practitioners were convinced to give up the exercise by 80 year old chief practitioner, Maria Kiyonga.
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Uganda seems to be winning its war against female genital mutilation, with more than 70 "local surgeons", who have been carrying out the practice denouncing it and surrendering their crude scalpels to authorities.
The East African nation outlawed female genital mutilation (FGM) four years ago after an outcry from legislators and human rights activists, but the practice remains common in outlying and remote areas.
The practitioners, mostly elderly females who have for long been practicing their craft on girls in north east Uganda's Karamoja region, told Uganda's Minister of State for Gender and Culture, Rukia Nakadama that they would never do it again.
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The practitioners were convinced to give up the exercise by 80 year old chief practitioner, Maria Kiyonga.
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This is wonderful, wonderful news.
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