S TOP MGF No more mutilation I
ni them female genitals " In Italy there are about 90 thousand immigrant women who have undergone the practice of female genital mutilation FGM), widely used in 28 countries in Africa, the Middle East and South Asian t es .
addition there is a high risk that the daughters of these women, children and adolescents suffer these practices during their stay in Italy or during a holiday in the country parents. " These results presented by Pilar Saravia, president of knots - our rights - at the end of the STOP FGM project, funded by the Department for Equal Opportunities of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
The victims of these practices, supported in the name of tradition, are particularly girls between 4 and 15 years of age at risk is subject to a gradual lowering to prevent any resistance from lle de same girls which, once mature, will suffer severe psychological consequences physical suffering caused by diseases , sex dol Orosi, infertility, infections and hazardous shares. The
Assoc iazione nodes, which for years undertakes concrete actions to respect the dignity of the immigrant women in Italy, faced with the difficult subject of female genital mutilation in hrough an awareness campaign and prevention among the migrant population, coming from countries at risk and settled in the Region. STOP FGM
The project began in February 2007, has developed through three stages: training of social health, organized by the San Camillo - Forlanini, research of the phenomenon, made dall'IRPPS-CNR, and awareness / prevention affected communities, followed by nodes.
In twenty months the association has mapped Nodes meeting places and services used by the communities at risk in Lazio, met with the mediators, he produced and distributed printed materials on the subject. He then created an awareness and information meetings with groups of victims or at risk of FGM in the five provinces of Lazio with a total of 800 women. Finally, he realized the information site www.stop- mgf.org also hosts a forum for the exchange of experiences.
If talk about the subject the first reaction is mistrust of the women involved, the key word to break the silence as health, a right guaranteed by the national laws of the countries at risk, which tend to oppose such practices while finding great difficulties in their application, especially in the rural context. In Italy
FGM is a crime punishable by imprisonment (Law No. 7 January 9, 2006): The objective is to discourage the use of these practices in Italian society.
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