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Chief Zanzan Karwor: ‘We need plenty sacrifice to say goodbye to our tradition’
As the Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection in collaboration with UN Women, observed the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation in the country, there were telling signs that the prospects of eradicating of the practice from Liberia appear encouraging and painstakingly so.
In spite of significant amounts of awareness raised over the years about the harmful nature of the practice of FGM, the National Traditional Council of Liberia has been entrenched in the practice.
“We are traditional people, but this is something we have been inside for a very long time. So if your want for us to cancel our society, we need to do plenty sacrifice to say goodbye to our tradition,” the head of the Traditional Council, Chief Zanzan Karwor, told a United Nations-sponsored annual awareness against FGM over the weekend.