دعا نائب وزير الصحة الهولندي سفراء الدول الإفريقية إلى أحد المؤتمرات بمدينة "لاهاي"، والذي ينعقد حول منع ختان الإناث، والعمل على حشد الجهود للتصدي لهذه الشعيرة.

كما أعلن أن "هولندا" تعتزم السير على خطا "فرنسا" في جعل الأسر توقع على اتفاق بينها وبين الحكومة ينص على عدم جواز القيام بختان الإناث في "هولندا" لمواجهة الضغوط التي تمارس عليهم من قبل الأقارب، وأنه في حالة المخالفة لذلك الاتفاق فإن الأسرة تعرض نفسها للمسؤولية أمام الحكومة الهولندية.

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‘Ambassadors’ appointed to fight female circumcision

The ambassadors, who are from African communities in the Netherlands, will help pass on information to parents who come from countries where the custom is practiced.

The Hague – ‘Ambassadors’ to fight against female genital mutilation were appointed by the deputy health minister Jet Bussemaker on Wednesday.

The ambassadors, who were appointed at an international conference to fight female genital mutilation in The Hague, are from African communities in the Netherlands.

They will pass on information on the dangers of female genital mutilation to parents who originally come from countries where the custom is practiced, such as Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan.

In a TV interview on Tuesday, Bussemaker stressed that apart from causing terrible pain, female genital mutilation, also referred to as female circumcision or genital cutting, deprives women of their sexuality and carries grave lifelong health risks.

African success
Bussemaker said the government plans to call in help from African countries such as Senegal to help eradicate female genital mutilation in the Netherlands, in what she describes as “reverse development cooperation”.

According to the deputy minister, while some African countries had taken great strides in stamping out the practice, immigrants in the Netherlands sometimes remained more conservative in retaining the custom than people in their homeland.

At the conference in The Hague, Uniting Europe and Africa to fight Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, one of the key speakers was Berhane-Ras Work of the Inter-African Committee, who gave a presentation on African projects that have been successful in combating the custom.

Contract
Bussemaker also used the conference as a platform to launch a scheme after a French model whereby parents from high-risk countries are invited to sign a contract in which they undertake not to subject their daughters to genital mutilation.

The scheme is aimed at helping parents resist pressure from relatives by showing them the signed contract. It states that female genital mutilation is illegal in the Netherlands, and the parents risk prosecution if they allow it to be performed on their daughters.

أضف تعليقك:	إعلام عبر البريد الإلكتروني عند نشر تعليق جديد
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البريد الإلكتروني	(لن يتم عرضه للزوار)
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عنوان التعليق
نص التعليق	رجاء، اكتب كلمة : تعليق في المربع التالي

هولندا: دعوة سفراء دول إفريقيا للمشاركة في حملات منع الختان

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‘Ambassadors’ appointed to fight female circumcision