Senegal: Grandmas Fight Female Mutilation
A campaign to educate women about the practice of female genital mutilation has helped to reduce the acceptance of excision among grandmothers, who often make circumcision decisions for young girls.
Photo: Elizabeth Fakan/USAID
Woman participates in community training to combat female genital mutilation
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Whenever women are mutilated, murdered to protect the family honor, denied education, denied the right to vote, they need protection from the tenets of their own immediate culture. It is important that everyone know where ever and whenever this victimization occurs. No living creature should be injured with impunity. That any of these offenses occur in the U.S. is horrible.