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About 120 million women and girls worldwide have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). An estimated two million girls are also mutilated each year, Florence Ali, President of the Ghanaian Association of Women Welfare (GAWW), has disclosed.
Health experts and religious leaders have rejected a proposed abortion law that will make it easier for Kenyan women to terminate pregnancy.
A survey has established that the culture of secrecy, insensitivity of police and hospitals on gender violence cases are among the factors that undermine efforts to fight Violence Against Women (VAW) in Zanzibar.
Moves to legalise the sex industry that suggest women voluntarily choose prostitution as a viable profession should be vociferously opposed, a multinational conference focusing on the impact of the 2010 World Cup on trafficking of women and children was told.
Scores of angry women have protested against the mayor of their outback Australian town after he said fat and unattractive females often found love and happiness in the remote mining community.
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