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 👇🏽
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 👇🏽
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👇🏽
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).
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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