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Article: Men Urged to Help Combat Female Circumcision in
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 26, 1997
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Men have a crucial role to play in fighting female genital
mutilation, delegates have appealed at a seminar held in the north
Tanzanian town of Arusha.
Kilimanjaro Regional Commissioner Joseph Mbwiliza made the appeal
on Tuesday for concerted efforts to curb female genital mutilation,
which is rampant in some parts of the region.
"It is a crime against women, and people should feel responsible
to fight the bad culture among the local community," he said, adding
that men should spearhead the war.
The commissioner urged elderly people in the region to support a
reform of customs and traditions which suppressed women, according
to
a report by the Daily News today.
Mbwiliza commended ...