FGM Outlawed in Sudan

[The alchemist]

In a Victory for Women in Sudan, Female Genital Mutilation Is Outlawed (Published 2020)

A new law criminalizes genital cutting, a harmful practice that nine in 10 Sudanese women are said to have endured. But some warned laws alone cannot eliminate the practice.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Genesis]

Crazy that it was still legal

 

[Caaro]

Crazy that it was still legal

It happens a lot in Somalia even now

 

[Genesis]

It happens a lot in Somalia even now

Mostly in baadiye, but in big cities like Xamar or Hargeisa, it is uncommon.

And it is forbidden in the constitution, though it's only enforced if the woman dies.

 

[Caaro]

Mostly in baadiye, in big cities like Xamar or Hargeisa, it is uncommon. And it is forbidden in the constitution, though it's only enforced if the woman dies.

I’d rather them do it in the bigger cities than in baadiye. The government has no reach over there. Who knows how many girls had to go through FGM with a dull knife by some random odey. It actually shocked me when I first found out about it, crazy.

 

[Asaana]

Crazy that it was still legal

It was illegal years ago, this is just a PR stunt. Educated families stopped in the 70s and most city people stopped in the 80s.

 

[Nomoregames2019]

It was illegal years ago, this is just a PR stunt. Educated families stopped in the 70s and most city people stopped in the 80s.

Sudanese men will still get blamed by these Western feminists. We all know it was these crazy habobas back in the day forcing their granddaughters to get FGM done.

And the people who performed FGM on Sudanese girls were all women too.

 

[Yahya]

Sudanese men will still get blamed by these Western feminists. We all know it was these crazy habobas back in the day forcing their granddaughters to get FGM done.

And the people who performed FGM on Sudanese girls were all women too.

It's a female tradition, like how in china the females forced their daughters to bind their feet and make them small as a sign of beauty.

 

[Asaana]

Sudanese men will still get blamed by these Western feminists. We all know it was these crazy habobas back in the day forcing their granddaughters to get FGM done.

And the people who performed FGM on Sudanese girls were all women too.

This is true. My grandfather is the reason it was never done on my mom.

anti-FGM ads even depicted this as it was often fathers that were against it.

 

[Farabuuto]

It was illegal years ago, this is just a PR stunt. Educated families stopped in the 70s and most city people stopped in the 80s.

So you're saying this is a lie? I heard FGM is still being done to this day.

 

[Asaana]

So you're saying this is a lie? I heard FGM is still being done to this day.

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I never said that FGM stopped, I said that most city people (35% of the country) have stopped. Along with university educated families which is no more than 10% of the population.

Honestly that figure is most likely inflated. They also claim that it was done to 98% of girls in Somalia and 87% of girls in Egypt which I doubt.