Tanzania: 2000 Mara Girls Forced to Flee Homes to Escape FGM

Tanzania: 2000 Mara Girls Forced to Flee Homes to Escape FGM
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Tarime — A total of 2,118 girls have fled their homes since November 15 this year to escape female genital mutilation (FGM) in some areas of Mara Region. The girls have been sheltered at Masanga Rescue Centre, which is managed by the Catholic Church ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

9 years ago

TheCitizen

27 Dec

2,000 Mara girls forced to flee homes to escape FGM

A total of 2,118 girls have fled their homes since November 15 this year to escape female genital mutilation (FGM) in some areas of Mara Region.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

17 May

Milestone as 250 girls escape FGM

Kilindi. Some 250 young Maasai girls were yesterday attained womanhood in a traditional rite of passage that was conducted at Saunyi Village, in Saunyi Ward, Kilindi District, Tanga Region, without undergoing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

13 Feb

Govt urged to build shelters for girls who escape, survive FGM

Govt urged to build shelters for girls who escape, survive FGM
IPPmedia
Serenity and nature at its best is how you can explain this region, an area located in the central parts of Tanzania. The region is endowed with honey as if it were a promised land and not to mention of sunflower seeds and groundnuts. The two lakes ...
FGM Fight - a War Mara Must Win At All CostAllAfrica.com

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10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Dec

LAKE ZONE: 117 girls take refuge in church to escape FGM

>The Anglican Church here has provided shelter to 117 young girls who ran away from their homes to escape female genital mutilation (FGM).

 

10 years ago

Vijimambo

06 Jan

PRESS RELEASE: FGM GRADUATION IN MARA “Mara youth: vessels and voices of change in ending FGM”

Masanga, 05 January 2015 – As efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM) are intensifying in the country, 836 young people– 634 girls and 202 boys from Tarime and Loliondo districts, have gone through alternative rites of passage training. The young people were awarded certificates of merit during a graduation ceremony organized by Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul on Monday 5th January 2015 and officiated by Minister of Labour and Employment, Hon. Gaudensia Kabaka.

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10 years ago

IPPmedia

11 Feb

Tanzania signs Girls Summit Charter on FGM

IPPmedia
Tanzania signs Girls Summit Charter on FGM
IPPmedia
British High Commissioner Dianna Melrose at the signing of an agreement in Dsm yesterday under which the government of Tanzania committed itself to ending FGM and child marriages. The government has signed Girls Summit Charter that calls for the ...
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Tanzania steps up efforts to end child marriageGlobalPost
East African Business Week
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9 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Sep

Floods force Japanese residents to flee homes

Tochigi authorities ordered more than 90,000 residents to evacuate, while another 116,000 were advised to leave their homes.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Dec

CHENEY: No escape for those stuck in Malaysian ‘forced labour’

>Toiling 12 hours a day in a Malaysian electronics factory amid broken promises on wages and working conditions, Manu dreams of returning to his poor Nepal village but is restrained by invisible shackles.

 

11 years ago

BBC

More girls 'flee Nigeria kidnappers'

At least seven of the 85 Nigerian schoolgirls still missing after being abducted last week escape, the local state governor says.

 

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