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Colombia’s Senate approved a law on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) to ban female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice that persists in some of the country’s Indigenous communities, after two years of debate. The World Health Organization (WHO) says the full or partial removal of the clitoris causes serious health damage, poses a risk of death…
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Dozens of girls in Ivory Coast would be circumcised, often surrounded by fetishes and sacred objects. Touba, Ivory Coast: When he was a witch doctor, Moussa Diallo would regularly smear himself in a lotion made from a clitoris cut from a girl subjected to female genital mutilation. “I wanted to be a big chief, I…
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Anti-Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) protesters hold placards outside the National Assembly in Banjul on March 18, 2024, during the debate between lawmakers on a highly controversial bill seeking to lift the ban on FGM. | Photo Credit: AFP Gambian lawmakers voted on July 15 to uphold a 2015 ban on female genital mutilation, rejecting a…
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