Senate demands victim-centred approach in handling FGM cases

The Senate Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights (JLAHR) has called for an urgent policy shift to protect rather than prosecute survivors of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Lawmakers said the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act of 2011, though meant to curb the practice, has in some cases resulted in the re-victimisation of […]

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