{"id":389,"date":"2021-02-06T09:34:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T09:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2021-02-06T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T11:14:23","slug":"2021-international-day-of-zero-tolerance-for-female-genital-mutilation-fgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/06\/2021-international-day-of-zero-tolerance-for-female-genital-mutilation-fgm\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ZERO TOLERANCE FOR FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>PRESS STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ZERO TOLERANCE FOR FEMALE\nGENITAL MUTILATION (FGM)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6 February 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Building Blocks for Peace Foundation (BBFORPEACE) joins\nother stakeholders around the world to commemorate \u201cThe International Day of\nZero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)\u201d. This day provides yet\nanother opportunity to reemphasize the need to put an end to the violation of\nthe human rights of girls and women through the practice of FGM. We note with sadness\nthat despite all campaigns, events and activities held over the years to educate\nand sensitize people about the dangers and health implications that come with\nFemale Genital Mutilation; this practice persists across the world and especially\nin some parts of Nigeria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Nations reports that in 2021 alone, over\nfour million girls around the world are at risk of undergoing FGM. The practice\nof FGM has absolutely no health benefits, and all it does is harm girls and\nwomen in quite a number of ways, including intracranial haemorrhage, painful\nsexual intercourse, urinary tract infections, prolonged and obstructed labour, vesical-vagina\nfistula, excessive bleeding, genital tissue swelling, psychological problems, severe\npain, shock and even death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an organisation that promotes Women, Peace and\nSecurity, we outrightly condemn the practice of Female Genital Mutilation everywhere\nas not only is the act barbaric but it is also one that has been very harmful to\nthe health of its victims, due to the immediate and long-term implications. Therefore,\non this day, we lend our voice to putting an end to Female Genital Mutilation and\nall other forms of violence and inequalities against girls and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Signed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susan O. Michael<br>Director, Women, Peace and Security,<br>Building Blocks for Peace Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS STATEMENT THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ZERO TOLERANCE FOR FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) 6 February 2021 The Building Blocks for Peace Foundation (BBFORPEACE) joins other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,61,11,7],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-buildingblocksforpeace","tag-endfgm","tag-nigeria","tag-youth4peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}