Uganda: Let Us Empower the Sabiny Girls to Fight FGM

28 December 2010
opinion

IN my December 15, 2009 New Vision article titled Sensitise girls on female circumcision, I foresaw what happened recently - a violation of the law criminalising female genital mutilation (FGM). A total of 120 girls were recently circumcised in Bukwo district despite the ban on FGM.

In my opinion, the policy passed to criminalise FGM was rushed and inadequately planned. Statitistics on FGM clearly portray a responding community to awareness programmes. So, this means that passing a policy criminalising FGM or banning it signified that there was difficulty in influencing behavioural change.

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