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KENYA - FGM COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT
STUDY 2012
Coexist Initiative
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KENYA - FGM
COMMUNITY (KAJIADO COUNTY) ASSESSMENT STUDY 2012
"A key justification of this
study is that FGM is a deeply entrenched practice, and efforts to end it must
include educating and enlightening all members of society to understand FGM for
the harmful and destructive practice it is. Female genital mutilation violates
girls' and women's human rights, denying them their physical and mental
integrity, their right to freedom from violence, discrimination, and in the
most extreme cases, their lives. The study goes at length to reflect the
deep-rooted inequality between the sexes. FGM represents society's control over
girls and women......"
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