Female Circumcision in Sudan and Egypt

Todoy i entered a semposium in an University..And I was one of teenager that talked about Human's Right.

My subject was about Iraq and USA.. So i didn't search other countries…

There was a group there, talked about Human's Right in SUDAN…(the most developing country in Africa)  (!!)

They talked about something that i have never heard before… It is >> Female Circumcision

When i heard them, I really felt myself too terrible and upset..

Owww Nothing can be worse than this… Any of human can't do it with a peacefull heart.. :( I am sitll in shock now.. :S

And i wanna share them with you..

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Female Circumcision in Sudan

Female circumcision—also known as female genital mutilation—is widely practiced in some parts of Sudan.Information about attitudes toward the practice, the reasons why women support it and the social and demographic predictors associated with support for it are needed for development of eradication strategies. .

Methods: In a survey on reproductive health, approximately 1,000 ever-married women were randomly selected in each of three areas—Haj-Yousif and Shendi in the north, where female circumcision is widely practiced, and Juba in the south, where it is relatively rare. Interviewers collected data on the prevalence of the three types of circumcision, their social and demographic correlates, women's attitudes toward the practice and their perception of their husbands' attitudes.

Female circumcision is not associated with any one religious group. It is practiced by Muslims, Christians, Jews and members of indigenous African religions.

Female circumcision is often performed by lay practitioners with little or no formal knowledge of human anatomy or medicine. In most cases, the operation takes place under unhygienic conditions and without anesthesia or sterile instruments.

Circumcision can have many immediate and long-term consequences. These consequences vary considerably by the type and severity of cutting, with the most serious complications associated with infibulation. The immediate consequences include difficulty in passing urine, urine retention, hemorrhage, infection, fever, stress and shock and damage to the genital organs.

Over time, circumcised women may also develop menstrual complications, vulvar abscesses, obstetric complications, urinary tract infections, chronic pelvic infection and low fertility or sterility. In addition, female circumcision, especially infibulation, may make intercourse per- functory or even painful.

Despite these grave risks, its practitioners look on it as an integral part of their cultural and ethnic identity. In societies in which few women remain uncircumcised, problems arising from female circumcision are likely to be seen as a normal part of a woman's life and may not even be associated with circumcision

Look http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/2707101.html for most information

                      i wish i didn't see this topic

yes that is our time spirit,to life comfortable surrounded from nice things,nice family and lot of friends….there is no need to see how others innocents girls must suffers in the dirt under old man rules under old traditions from the Pharaohs…

a little prayer and sweet dreams

pictures can change,i remember the time of the Vietnam war at this time you got uncensored the cruel war picture in your house…the pressure from the usa public grew so much that the us politician had been forced to stop the war.

i remember the pictures from irak war 1 and 2 the war came like a sterile video game in our tv.What happens ? the usa military allow no free reporter …the politician and the military fear the cruel pictures.

can i cry is for me a honest person with civil courage,she has heard about cruel things which happens not far from her country…she can't go to bed like others,she post this topic and make many people thinking about old tradition and old man rules.

These are the byeproducts of psudo religiuos life.

Man & women has been separated by religious dogmas & existential relations has been effected, real love has not been allowed to evolve, that's what makes the man 'mad'.

it's very terrible,nobody or goverment can stop it?

MarocLady and Zeus.. you are both right with a feeling ennoys you.. 

I was same with you when i saw it first time..

But to cry, or to feel bad show us how a good person we are.. But it won't help these ppl..

Ughh..It can't be so.. Government should stop it!!

  it is very pitiful. It shockes me. UNO & other international org-s transfering money to develope african countries, but where this moneys going to?

Money isn't real problem for doing so..

It is not about money or something like it..

There are a lot of poor ppl or country in the World..But it doesn't mean they can do them.

it is not poorless…it is just ignorance

I agree with Leo. It has to do sure with money. Money means here education. Education is knowledge about something which is bad or good for human being.

But these feelings are more important than money or education..

We already have some humanity feelings when we are born, without money or knowledge or education..