INFIBULATION, A SIGN THAT IS NOT CLEAR

A delicate international situation and relations such as trade-offs that we see daily, based on fragile and precarious balance does not seem to give the right space to the female condition.

Unfortunately not yet protected from violation of their fundamental rights, women living in situations of profound unease. Ignorance and lack of information mean that crimes such as circumcision, female circumcision, excision are perpetrated with impunity.

The rest of the world, too busy fighting wars of crisis and recession does not realize that abuse the dignity of women by men who feel entitled to own them masters, is still well-practiced in 29 African countries. Even have been “exported” in Kurdistan, Bolivia, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and even in the West, including Italy.

Today is the World Day against female circumcision, and it seemed only right to information, as far as I can, on this phenomenon still largely unknown.

Female genital mutilation come from legacies related to culture and traditions of a patriarchal past that allowed men to violate the privacy of women and feel entitled to do so.

The problem is that the humiliation of women by violence is not only physical but also psychological is still permitted. That information is the only battle you can fight you must fight: the association “No peace without justice” has today launched the campaign “You decide to leave that mark.” It ‘s been made a television commercial and planned to collect signatures on www.noncepacesenzagiustizia.org site, intended for delivery to the General Assembly.

I think you should, by all means at our disposal, to try to protect the work of organizations active in the poorest countries, to give them financial support so that they can also carry out awareness raising campaigns. Seriously damaging practices such as these must absolutely forbidden and condemned.

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