Cameroon, WHO Launch Campaign To End FGM
VOA News: Cameroon, WHO Push for End to Female Circumcision
“Cameroon and the World Health Organization (WHO) have a launched a campaign against female circumcision. The practice, which critics call female genital mutilation (FGM), is still practiced in the Central African nation for commercial reasons and traditional belief that it makes a woman faithful to her husband…” (Kindzeka, 6/17).
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