Welcome to another episode of Let's Talk Human Rights! For this episode we had the pleasure of talking with Marthine Bos. Marthine is a medical anthropologist / social nurse who specializes in training professionals wishing to speak about taboos within other cultures, especially topics surrounding sexuality and female circumcision.

In this episode, we discussed Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). According to the World Health Organization, FGM is still practiced in over 30 countries around the world, with an estimated 200 million girls and women having been subjected to this practice.

We touched on Marthine's experiences working in various African countries and what inspired her to go into the direction of Human Rights advocacy before moving onto background information about FGM. We then discussed what efforts are being done in the Netherlands and Internationally to combat and help survivors of FGM, before going into some reasons as to why it is still practiced today, why this logic is inherently flawed, and what we can do to further educate ourselves.

Further Resources:

End FGM Network

Pharos FGM

World Health Organization FGM 

United Nations Population Fund: FGM Statisitics

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