mutilation, hygienic conditions, the skill and eyesight of the iv) Intermediate, meaning the removal of the clitoris and some operator, and the struggles of the child. [...] The representing the masculine element in a young girl, and the foreskin Mufti of the Sudan, Sheikh Ahmed El Taher, in reviewing the subject in representing femininity in a boy, both must be excised to demarcate 1946, clearly stated that the words 'embellishment', 'preferable' and clearly the sex of the person22. [...] • In December 1979, the African Symposium on the World of They perhaps overlooked the fact that those in the 'developed' Work and the Protection of the Child, organized by the Interna- world who wish to help in the struggle against mutilation are not tional Institute for Labour Studies in Yaounde, strongly recom- likely to divert their interest and the funds available to such overall 9 17 The Suda. [...] The two major themes of the book are organizations, whether of the left or of the right, these questions are polygamy and genital mutilations, and its strength lies in the avoided.' Thus it is for women to pose the problems which specifi- authenticity of the evidence, much of it in the form of personal cally concern them and to work towards their solution. [...] For, in spite of the limited knowledge and urban areas who would support the above expressed views, and available, there is sufficient agreement on two major reasons for the the small number of modernized women who ignore the existence of perpetuation of the practice: preservation of premarital chastity and the practice, are shocked when they learn about it, and completely safeguarding of feminine.
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