'Every Other Young Girl You See Has Undergone Female Genital Mutilation': Gambia EndFGM
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This leads to health consequences later in life. When they give birth, they may encounter complications, and the chances of a stillbirth are higher. If the baby survives, they may end up with obstetric fistula, holes that develop between the vagina and the bladder, that make women urinate when they sit. This can lead women being excluded from their communities, and their husbands to leave them.Women are the ones practicing FGM.
FGM has actually been illegal since 2015. However, only two cases have been brought to justice since then, with no convictions.Circumisers hand in implements during a ceremony calling for an end to female genital mutilation in The Gambia . Period poverty leads to girls skipping school for around five days every month because, if they don't have access to adequate menstrual products, they worry about staining their clothes, and being shamed; that's between 40 and 50 days in a school year.
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