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Uganda Government Bans Female Circumcision
Uganda's parliament has unanimously voted to outlaw female genital mutilation, imposing a 10-year penalty on anyone who conducts the procedure and life in prison for those who physically force a woman to submit to the act, one of the bill's main sponsors told AFP Friday.
"This practice has left so many women in misery. So we are saying no. We cannot allow women to be dehumanized," Francis Epetait, Uganda's shadow health minister said, explaining that the bill was passed late Thursday.
While Epetait is a leader in Uganda's main opposition party, the bill was entirely non-partisan and voted unopposed by a single lawmaker.
"This operation is so painful, so cruel, and these so-called surgeons are paid to do it," he said. "I supported the bill with all my strength and heart."
While female genital mutilation is not very widespread in Uganda, it has historically been practiced by some communities in the northeast of the country.
In October 2008, community leaders in Kapchorwa district, where the practice was most prevalent, unilaterally decided to ban it. At the time, the district chairman told AFP he hoped parliament would institute a nationwide ban.
In 2007, the United Nations passed a resolution that called female genital mutilation a violation of the rights of women and said it constituted "irreparable, irreversible abuse."
The resolution also said the practice increases the risk of HIV transmission, as well as maternal and infant mortality. The United Nations estimates that 100 to 140 million women worldwide have undergone the cut.
Source-AFP
SRM
"This practice has left so many women in misery. So we are saying no. We cannot allow women to be dehumanized," Francis Epetait, Uganda's shadow health minister said, explaining that the bill was passed late Thursday.
While Epetait is a leader in Uganda's main opposition party, the bill was entirely non-partisan and voted unopposed by a single lawmaker.
"This operation is so painful, so cruel, and these so-called surgeons are paid to do it," he said. "I supported the bill with all my strength and heart."
While female genital mutilation is not very widespread in Uganda, it has historically been practiced by some communities in the northeast of the country.
In October 2008, community leaders in Kapchorwa district, where the practice was most prevalent, unilaterally decided to ban it. At the time, the district chairman told AFP he hoped parliament would institute a nationwide ban.
In 2007, the United Nations passed a resolution that called female genital mutilation a violation of the rights of women and said it constituted "irreparable, irreversible abuse."
The resolution also said the practice increases the risk of HIV transmission, as well as maternal and infant mortality. The United Nations estimates that 100 to 140 million women worldwide have undergone the cut.
Source-AFP
SRM
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barbie31(Guest)
03/19/2011
yes it should be frowned apond if they dont want it meaning if they are not grown and willing to pay for it and sign the paper them self then it shold not be done but unlike me i want it done and is willing to pay for it oh im 30 years old
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