Legislating Change? Responses to Criminalizing Female Genital Cutting in Senegal (2013)

This study is a Descriptive research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:

Author(s): Bettina Shell-Duncan,Ylva Hernlund,Katherine Wander,and Amadou Moreau
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: None.

Objective: To examine the range of responses observed in rural Senegal,where a 1999 anti-FGC law was imposed on communities in which the practice was being actively contested and targeted for elimination.
Study Population: Elder/younger men an women
Findings: We concluded that legislation can complement other reform strategies by creating an “enabling environment” that supports those who have or wish to abandon FGC

Geographical coverage
Region(s):Western Africa
Country(ies):Senegal

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