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Article: CAMEROON: HOPE IN ANTI-FGM PUSH RESTS WITH WOMEN LAWMAKERS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- June 30, 2006
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Sylvestre Tetchiada
Inter Press Service English News Wire
06-30-2006
YAOUNDE, Jun. 29, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Cameroon's women legislators
gathered under a tree in the garden of the country's parliament
recently, listening to 17-year-old Hannah Kwenti, the mother of a
five-month-old baby girl and a victim of female genital mutilation
(FGM).
She and the group that sponsored her visit to the capitol hoped
her story would prompt change - and it appears that it might.
"I come from Mamf (in southwestern Cameroon), where I was
circumcised in January after the birth of Ruth," she told IPS. "My
parents-in-law insisted on it, believing that if it was not done,
I could one day be unfaithful to Peter," her ...