CengosImo EndFGM/C @EndFGC

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Menstrual hygiene is very essential for every female child. Menstruation is a sign of womanhood and keeping best practices promotes good health. Let's support improved access to menstrual health information and services! #MHM2021 #MenstrualHygieneDay #SRHR

FGM occurs in a variety of cultural contexts, with significant differences in terms of the age at cutting, the extent of cutting, the setting in which the practice takes place and the rituals associated with it. Credit - UNFPA

These effects include severe pain, shock, infections and complications during childbirth (affecting both the mother and the child), long-term gynaecological problems (such as fistula), psychological effects, and death. Credit - UNFPA

FGM is a reproductive health concern and a human rights violation that has devastating short- and long-term impacts on the lives of women and girls. Credit - UNFPA (Analysis of Legal Frameworks on Female Genital Mutilation in Selected West African Countries)

Dannic Hotels, Enugu ... March 24, 2021 ... Event: CIRDDOC-organized #training for traditional rulers from Ebonyi & Imo States on the harmful traditional practice of female genital mutilation. #FGM #SRHR #endfgm #endfgm #CIRDDOC #CENGOS

AmplifyChange launches new five-year Strategy. Read how our grantees continue to shape the future of AmplifyChange and #SRHR for all bit.ly/2No4iEf.

#SRHR is a crucial part of improving gender equality. AmplifyChange grantees advocate each day to secure these rights, contributing to a more equal world for all. #IWD2021 #ChoosetoChallenge

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On #IWD2021, read AmplifyChange’s new factsheet on menstrual health that illustrates how the fund’s investment in menstrual health programming has more than doubled since 2018 bit.ly/3c9mycI.

Today speaks to the need to do better, do more, do good, do right, do fairness, do justice, DO NO HARM. To the dignity of women and girls! Happy International Women's Day! #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2021 #

Whichever the case, it is important to keep on strengthening the gains from FGM/C interventions so as to persuade more people to change of their own free will. This would lead to sustainable abandonment of FGM/C.

Of the 2 instances, one group now believes (altered belief system) while the other still does not believe but are nevertheless deterred; for fear of consequences as result of existence of the law.

Legislation prohibiting FGM/C in Nigeria is meant to serve as deterrent, encourage behavioral change, and as basis for prosecution of offenders.

Actively and deliberately engaging those of the opposite sex, on the issues and consequences surrounding the practice of FGM/C, is among others, key to strengthening consensus on its abandonment.

According to a UNICEF report on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, in Nigeria, 35% of boys and men and 31% of girls and women surveyed, reported that they do not know what the opposite sex thinks about FGM/C.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a harmful traditional practice (HTP) which should be discouraged in the interest of the sexual & reproductive health of women and young girls. Let's support its abandonment.