Religious Leaders on protecting women and girls from FGM

Religious Leaders from across the country have held a one-day dialogue session on the way forward for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at the WAYS Hall in Bo City on Monday 16^th May 2016.

Presentations and discussions were based on the theme: “The new beginning” promoting women and girls from FGM. It can be recalled during the national address to mark the end of Ebola outbreak on 7^th November 2016, President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma spoke of “a new beginning” which warrants that “traditional practices that have negative impact on health, and which were discontinued during the Ebola outbreak, should not be returned to”. It was against this backdrop that the Forum Against Harmful Practices (FAHP) considers that this constitute an important basis on which to lobby, build allies and engage stakeholders like Religious Leaders to support legislation to ban the practice of FGM consistent with the many international protocols and treaties signed and ratified by Sierra Leone.

publish - By: SEM Contributor on May 18, 2016.

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