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Contributor [1]
Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 02:00
Categories: 
Women & gender [2]
Issue Number: 
51 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Despite the criminalisation of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Kenya in December 2001, many communities continue to carry out the traditional practice, and attitudes towards it in much of rural Kenya are changing only slowly, according to a local nongovernmental organisation.

Category: 
Gender & Minorities [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/wgender/5443 [5]
Country: 
Kenya [6]

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