CAIRO, Feb 23, 2020 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A retired doctor and the parents of a 12-year-old girl who died after female genital mutilation (FGM) surgery are to stand trial in Egypt, with child rights campaigners calling for jail terms to deter others from the illegal practice. Egypt’s Prosecutor General Hamada El-Sawy this weekend ordered […]
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Lesbian ‘witches’ chained and raped by families in Cameroon
YAOUNDE, Oct. 2, 2018 – During a dreary Sunday morning church service, 14-year-old Viviane – tired of wrestling with her sexual attraction to girls – resigned herself to an unhappy conclusion: she was bewitched. At school and at church in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde, she had long been told that liking someone of the same sex […]