Senegal: Villages vow to stop cutting girls
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IRIN Africa Members of 70 villages from the country’s northeastern Matam region have publicly renounced female genital mutilation (FGM) as well as forced and early marriages.
Submitted on Sun, 12/04/2005 - 01:00
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