Female Genital Mutilation

Source:

SINIM MIRA NISSIGUE

Duration:

Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 19:00

Countries:

Africa

Western Africa

Guinea

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes:

Human Rights

Initiative Type:

Campaigns

Sinim Mira Nissigue, an NGO established in the late 1990's, has been taking the lead on bringing information and advocacy to the rural areas of Guinea-Bissau and mobilizing women around the issue of FGM. Women have been developing and advocating alternative purification rites that are not physically invasive.

For more information on their culturally-adaptive approach to FGM, please click here.

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