Inter Press ServiceRural Women Peace Link - Author - Inter Press Service https://www.ipsnews.net/author/rural-women-peace-link/ News and Views from the Global South Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:45:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Girls Take Charge in the Fight to End Female Genital Mutilation https://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/girls-take-charge-in-the-fight-to-end-female-genital-mutilation/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/girls-take-charge-in-the-fight-to-end-female-genital-mutilation/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:46:22 +0000 Rural Women Peace Link http://www.ipsnews.net/?p=119799

By Rural Women Peace Link
Jun 13 2013 (IPS)

Some girls among the Pokot community in western Kenya are bravely defying what is considered cultural and traditional by refusing to be circumcised. More and more mothers, fathers and the women whose job is to do the cutting are beginning to support these girls’ right to bodily integrity.

 

Girls Take Charge in the Fight to End Female Genital Mutilation

 

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