Female Circumcision in Sudan
As it is still a very sensitive topic in countries like Sudan I find it very important to educate and create awareness, create an information portal as accessible as possible for everybody.
Female circumcision seems to be declining slightly in some areas of Sudan. A culturally accepted policy and political commitment to eradicate the practice are needed. Education and economic empowerment of women would help lower support for the practice. A mass media campaign publicizing the risks of female circumcision and the fact that female circumcision is not obligatory for Islamic women would also be helpful.
In relation to KM this would be a source for information for people to access easily and get their answers in texts, interviews with victims, parts from the Quran proving that it is not right for them to be practising this, a chat forum with psychiatrics and so on.
Female Genital Mutilation has been condemned by the United Nations human rights organizations and health professionals worldwide.
Nevertheless, it continues to be practiced, (mainly in Africa) as 90 per cent of girls in Somalia and in Northern Sudan are subjected to the most severe form, i.e. infibulation.
Genital mutilation is a collective term for the variety of procedures in which the external female genitals are removed completely or partly, or other lasting damage is inflicted.
The procedure is mainly carried out by so-called excisors or circumcisers with no medical qualifications. Girls who do not experience chronic pain, serious bleeding or blood poisoning after the procedure often suffer complications during pregnancy, experience great pain during sexual intercourse, and suffer other gynaecological problems and traumas later in life. It is of course difficult for young girls to understand that their closest family allow this to be inflicted upon them. The tradition is upheld for fear that the child will not be accepted for marriage and that she will be ostracised, which can have
Female circumcision seems to be declining slightly in some areas of Sudan. A culturally accepted policy and political commitment to eradicate the practice are needed. Education and economic empowerment of women would help lower support for the practice. A mass media campaign publicizing the risks of female circumcision and the fact that female circumcision is not obligatory for Islamic women would also be helpful.
In relation to KM this would be a source for information for people to access easily and get their answers in texts, interviews with victims, parts from the Quran proving that it is not right for them to be practising this, a chat forum with psychiatrics and so on.
Female Genital Mutilation has been condemned by the United Nations human rights organizations and health professionals worldwide.
Nevertheless, it continues to be practiced, (mainly in Africa) as 90 per cent of girls in Somalia and in Northern Sudan are subjected to the most severe form, i.e. infibulation.
Genital mutilation is a collective term for the variety of procedures in which the external female genitals are removed completely or partly, or other lasting damage is inflicted.
The procedure is mainly carried out by so-called excisors or circumcisers with no medical qualifications. Girls who do not experience chronic pain, serious bleeding or blood poisoning after the procedure often suffer complications during pregnancy, experience great pain during sexual intercourse, and suffer other gynaecological problems and traumas later in life. It is of course difficult for young girls to understand that their closest family allow this to be inflicted upon them. The tradition is upheld for fear that the child will not be accepted for marriage and that she will be ostracised, which can have