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Women s rights groups take Mali to regional court over inaction against FGM
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12/04/2021 - 15:31 A young girl holds up a picture urging the end to the practice of FGM. © Equality Now 4 min A number of women’s rights groups have filed a case against the government of Mali at the Ecowas regional court to try and force the authorities in Bamako to take action against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The initiative could set a legal precedent and have wider implications on the continent. Advertising Read more
The legal filing, confirmed by RFI on Monday, at the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Court of Justice in Abuja, Nigeria, is challenging the Malian government’s failure to enact laws or policy to make FGM illegal.
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Female genital cutting (FGC) has never been part of the Western tradition, and various efforts have been made to stamp out the practice in Africa and Asia, dating back at least as far as missionary John Arthur and the Church of Scotland s war against the practice in Kenya in the early 1930s.
Critics refer to the procedure as female genital mutilation and cite the sexual and medical consequences, although significant disagreement exists over the safety of the operation. Children, of course, cannot meaningfully consent to it.
Yet not all Westerners condemn female circumcision. Some anthropologists view the effort to eradicate the procedure as a form of cultural imperialism.