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El padre de Ruth, 13 años, ha pedido a su madre que planche los senos de la niña, porque "un hombre la ha tocado'". Parece que los está planchando con una piedra caliente.
Duele, pero es necesario para protegerla.
Y proteger el honor de la familia, de paso.

#EndBreastIroning
Los senos los "plancha" la madre a golpes, con una piedra o un mortero calientes.
Luego se vendan y se aprietan. Sistemática y regularmente.
Durante años, mientras sea necesario para frenar el creciento de esos malditos bultos que atraen a los hombres.

#StopBreastIroning
A veces se inflaman las glándulas y hay problemas, y fiebres, y dolor inhumano, y todo supura y arde.
Pero hay que seguir adelante.
Porque en la calle hay hombres.
Y es su destino como mujer, pero si no están las hermanas pequeñas, Ruth se deja ir, y llora.

#EndBreastIroning
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Women's Woes Continue🤦🏽‍♀️
Over the years, we've had calls from followers to extend our sensitization message to BREAST IRONING. We'll begin to alternate our #EndFGM campaign with #Endbreastironing Campaign.
Here we go🙌🏽

Like FGM, breast ironing is undergone to control a girl's 👇🏽 Image
sexuality.
The thinking behind the practice is that it'll enable a pre-pubescent girl to suppress an element of her anatomy that marks her out for gender-based violence: notably rape, sexual assault, abduction, forced marriage.
It's common in West and Central Africa, including👇🏽
Guinea-Bissau, Chad, Togo, Benin, Guinea-Conakry, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya and Zimbabwe.
It’s particularly prevalent in Cameroon: there, the number of girls who have been subjected to breast ironing is estimated be as high as one in three (around 1.3 million).
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