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Violence Against Women On Rise

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Wed, 29/10/2008 - 15:19
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IRIN

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http://www.alertnet.org/
Published Date: 
2008
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At least 300 women are victims of sexual violence every year in Bamako, according to local police records, but the actual figure is much higher said the president of the Bamako-based non-profit, Women in Law and Development in Africa.

"Victims and their families rarely denounce rapists in order to preserve the family's dignity and honour," said the group's president Sidibe Djenba Diop, "Rape cases are on the rise, yet neither the [Malian] culture nor its laws recognise, yet, that rape is an act of violence against women."

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Renewed Call for a Law Against Female Genital Mutilation

Submitted by Keba.sebetoane on Fri, 01/08/2008 - 11:43
Publisher: 
Equality Now
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http://www.equalitynow.org
Published Date: 
2008
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Fanta Camara was 5 years old when she was subjected to genital mutilation. In the course of the cutting her urethra was severely damaged, as a consequence of which she became incontinent. She had to drop out of school as other students, who could not bear the smell of her incontinence, made fun of her. In the village she spent her time washing her clothes, which were repeatedly soiled by the ceaseless flow of urine. The same community that required her, in accordance with tradition, to undergo the process of genital mutilation, shunned her as a result of the harm it caused her. Her condition, compounded by lack of education, heralded a bleak future.
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