Tag: Excision
the law against excision pending
This Monday, Gambian deputies examined in the National Assembly the lifting of the ban on excision in the country. This measure was ultimately not voted on and, according to our…
mobilization against a law reinstating excision
In Gambia, several dozen people demonstrated in front of the National Assembly in Banjul. For the second time this month, this Monday, March 18, deputies were considering a bill aimed…
seven years in prison for the excision of a little girl abroad, an unprecedented conviction
Amina Noor, a 40-year-old British woman, was sentenced Friday for placing a little girl in the hands of a woman who circumcised her during a trip to Kenya. An unprecedented…
Abortion, violence against women, excision… Dr. Ghada Hatem returns to these current topics
News Published on 03/07/2023 at 2:13 p.m. Updated 03/07/2023 at 2:13 p.m. Reading 3 mins. Founder of the Maison des femmes in Saint-Denis in 2016, Dr. Ghada Hatem, gynecologist-obstetrician, accompanies…
Excision: causes, women, in which countries?
200 million girls and women alive today have been victims of female circumcision, an act that refers to the total or partial removal of the external female genitalia. Deeply rooted…
Excision: better informing mothers and their daughters to fight against this mutilation
They are 200 million women to be circumcised. And every six minutes, another little girl comes to inflate this figure. On the occasion of the International Day of Zero Tolerance…