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August 27, 2016

Outside Paris, a clinic aims to tackle an age-old practice

Midwife Mathilde Delespine speaks with a Malian woman at a new women’s centre outside Paris. The woman is afraid her child will be excised, as she was.

ST.-DENIS, France – Miriam clearly remembers the day she was cut, bundled by two village women into a bathroom at the age of 7, where a third performed the procedure. “It was very, very painful,” the young Malian woman says softly, as her two tiny children pinch her cheeks, crying for attention.

Published in Features
January 12, 2015

African church leaders worry about the ‘medicalization’ of female genital mutilation

Some women from the Samburu community in Kenya have been subjected to female gential mutilation as part of traditional rite of passage from girlhood to womanhood. Kenyan religious leaders are campaigning against the mainstreaming of the practice in hospitals.

NAIROBI, Kenya - International rights groups, churches and activists are escalating campaigns against female genital mutilation now that a new practice has emerged in which girls are checking into hospitals to have the procedure.

Published in International