Even though Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, is recognised worldwide as a fundamental violation of the human rights of girls and women, communities in Nigeria have continued to perform the practice.
For these Nigerians, girls who are not circumcised tend to become promiscuous in adulthood. Cases abound in Nigeria where these victims are treated like outcasts. In some cases, these young girls are hurriedly taken away from their communities in a bid to save them from the knife of these traditionalists.
Grace had to escape with the help of her husband through the bushes at night. The trauma she went through made her run away with her daughter., Which nobody knows their whereabouts.Grace and her daughter are just one out of millions of Nigerian girls who have been forcefully circumcised despite the many complications associated with the act.
According to medical experts, the practice shows deep-rooted inequality between the sexes and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. They also argued that it is a violation of the rights of the children and a violation of a person’s right to health, security, and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death.
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