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Tag: FGM

  • Kenya

    JHR calls for stronger media collaboration in the fight against FGM

    Kenya has made significant progress in reducing the prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), with rates dropping from 21% in 2014 to 15% in 2022, according to the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey. However, young women and girls, especially in marginalized communities, remain at high risk. Ahead of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for

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  • Kenya

    KENYA: Community-led advocacy critical in ending Female Genital Mutilation

    The milestone is an outcome of close to ten months of community engagement and empowerment of a local anti-FGM steering committee to trace, document and report potential FGM cases in their neighbourhood. Elders in Chepkokogh Location, West Pokot County, with the I-Rep Foundation team and local authorities during the inaugural elder’s forum in February 2023.

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    KENYA: JHR works to engage men as allies in fight against FGM

    The anti-FGM elder engagement forum underway Seventy-six-year-old Joel Kalya is a happy elder. He has seen his daughters through school successfully in a region where female genital mutilation (FGM) is a mandatory rite of passage for girls, pushing them into early marriages. Joel hails from Chepkokogh location in Lomut Ward in West Pokot County, Kenya,

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  • Mali

    KENYA: How climate change is driving FGM and early marriages

    By Sylvia Thomson CBC News producer & JHR trainer for the Canada World program When I arrived in Nairobi in early January, the local JHR team here was talking a lot about climate change and how it intersects with gender issues. It’s been eye-opening in the hot, rainless months since then, to hear stories about

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