Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya: are young men allies in social change programmes?

The Girl Summit held in 2014 aimed to mobilise greater effort to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) within a generation, building on a global movement which viewed the practice as a severe form of violence against women and girls and a violation of their rights. The UN, among others, endorse “comprehensive” strategies to end FGM, including legalistic measures, social protection and social communications. FGM is a sensitive issue and difficult to research, and rapid ethnographic methods can use existing relations of trust within social networks to explore attitudes towards predominan t social norms which posit FGM as a social necessity.
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - Category: Global & Universal Authors: Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research