Female Genital Mutilation of FGM is reportedly level-headed being practiced or carried on Nimba County by extinct females, prompting Ambassador Juli Endee to steal terror.
Amb. Endee, former Tradition Ambassador of Liberia, expressed disappointment on the continuation of the train of FGM which was banned by the government of Liberia in gentle of its terrifying outcomes on females, who’re steadily victims of this train.
In a assertion, Ambassador Endee mentioned it’s miles confirmed that FGM violate the elemental rights of females, a quantity of whom are forced to partake in this ritual against their will.
“It has also been shown to compromise the safety of female participants, both women and girls,” the assertion mentioned.
The Liberian culture icon and peace recommend for decades recalled how she, as a lifelong recommend and proponent of females’s rights, supported and took part in efforts that ended in the ban on FGM, and pledged continuously reinforce the prohibition of the terrifying train.
According to her, she believes in the rule of thumb of law and ought to continue to uphold and appreciate it.
It ought to even be recalled that Liberia In October 2023 made a main milestone in its fight against FGM when former practitioners from Nimba County, in northern Liberia handed over extinct instruments they weak to perform FGM to signal an finish to the train.
“The traditional ceremony took place on Friday, 27 October 2023, at the Gbanquoi Vocational and Heritage Centre constructed by UN Women under the auspices of the European Union and United Nations Spotlight Initiative,”
the assertion licensed.
“The ceremony marked a moment of transformation as former traditional practitioners, clad in white headgear and carrying containers draped in white cloths, surrendered their tools to Chief Zanzan Karwor, the former Chairperson of the National Council of Chiefs and Elders of Liberia,” the assertion quoted her as saying.
The ceremony was witnessed by varied stakeholders, including representatives from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Gender, Teenagers, and Social Security, the Embassy of Sweden, UN Ladies, UNDP, UNFPA, civil society organizations, local authorities from Nimba, and extinct practitioners from varied counties all over Liberia.
Out of eleven counties FGM is practiced, Nimba has transform the fourth county to habits extinct rituals to effectively finish the train.
Other extinct ceremonies to finish FGM maintain as much as now been held in Montserrado, Great Cape Mount, and Bong Counties. This achievement aligns with Chief Zanzan Karwor’s landmark proclamation on 06 February 2023, to ban FGM during Liberia.
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The ban entails putting an finish to the terrifying train of cutting females and women while upholding distinct cultural practices, akin to singing, dancing, and weaving, among others. That is now widely acknowledged as ‘initiation with out mutilation.’
Chief Zanzan Karwor reaffirmed extinct leaders’ commitment to abandon the FGM train in Liberia, while Ambassador Juli Endee, Government Director for Crusaders of Peace and cultural Queen of Liberia, emphasized that extinct leaders selected to finish FGM voluntarily, pushed by their belief in doing the lovely thing to walk model.
Amb. Endee thanked model partners for the reinforce, while acknowledged the importance of reaching out to the ‘right of us,’ the extinct leaders and the Zoes (extinct practitioners) to make certain that the success of this transformative project.
