FGM is gruesome impediment to empowerment of womenBy Ruth KagiaShare this story:In a significant shift from tradition, Maasai elders in Loitoktok, in Kenya’s Kajiado County, girls are choosingto forgo traditional FGM as a rite of initiation into womanhood. Consider this, approximately 200 million girls and women alive today globally, have undergone some form of FGM. The origins of practices such as FGM and their continuation over millennia are traced to man’s objective of subjugating women. In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognized the close connection between FGM, gender inequality and development, urging global action to end FGM by 2030. FGM ranks as one of the worst manifestation of gender inequality.

Source: Standard Digital February 07, 2017 09:43 UTC