a
Your trusted place for Sierra Leone and global news
HomePosts Tagged "female circumcision"

female circumcision Tag

Archive

The Term Female Genital Mutilation Violates the Rights of Bondo/Sande Women and Girls in Sierra Leone Dear President Koroma, As a non-partisan and non-political group of women of Sierra Leonean

More than twenty years ago, circa 1994, I was sitting in a small seminar room in the heart of London, with about ten or so other people.  The

Tonte Ikoluba was 13 years old when her grandmother came to her family home to circumcise her. It was important she go through the rite, her grandmother said,

Fatmata Conteh went missing at the age of 17 some time in January 2007, she is about 5ft tall, slim with brown eyes she has two thumbs on