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Erica Dillard

AFROL Background - Women's health at risk in Africa - 0 views

  • Women's right to safe sexuality and to autonomy in all decisions relating to sexuality is respected almost nowhere.
  • nomic independence, this right is most violated in those places where women exchange sex for survival as a way of life
  • exes which results on the one hand from poverty affecting men and women, and on the other hand, f
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  • hom and with what protection if any, to have sex. Most women cannot.
    • Erica Dillard
       
      African Women exchange sex for the survival as a way of life
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    In most of traditional art and craft of Africa, certain themes significant to African culture recur, including a couple, a woman with a child, a male with a weapon or animal, and an outsider or a stranger,
William Mcknight

Africa - In Africa, 'Poverty Has a Female Face' - 0 views

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    This website describes the typical day of a poverty stricken woman in africa
Neycea Williams

"Educate a Woman, You Educate a Nation" - South Africa Aims to Improve its Ed... - 2 views

  • According to UN statistics, South Africa, of all African regions today, has the highest percentage of children who are given greater access to education at the primary level. Children attending school at the primary level go from 96% to 70% at the secondary level, then on to a drastic drop of 7% participation at the college level. Unfortunately participation for girls and women come in less numbers than these UN statistics show as many girls are kept from school to work and many girls marry and are encouraged to give up their education to have children.
Jennifer Rojas

WHO | Female genital mutilation - 6 views

shared by Jennifer Rojas on 24 Jan 12 - Cached
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      This is about female genital mutilation about the risks,and culture beliefs about fgm and about uman rights
  • no health benefits for girls and women.
  • severe bleeding
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  • Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter or injure female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
  • later, potential childbirth
  • problems urinating
  • complications
  • newborn deaths
  • currently living
  • 100 to 140 million girls
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  • with the consequences of FGM.
  • age 15
  • young girls
  • infancy
  • estimated 92 million girls
  • 10 years of age and above have undergone FGM.
  • FGM is internationally recognized as a violation of the human rights of girls and women.
  • Female genital mutilation
  • involve partial
  • total removal of the external female genitalia
  • injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
  • practice is mostly carried out by traditional circumcisers
  • FGM is being performed by health care providers
  • FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women.
  • inequality between the sexes,
  • discrimination against women.
  • procedure results in death
  • Procedures Female genital mutilation is classified into four major types. Clitoridectomy: partial or total removal of the clitoris (a small, sensitive and erectile part of the female genitals) and, in very rare cases, only the prepuce (the fold of skin surrounding the clitoris). Excision: partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora, with or without excision of the labia majora (the labia are "the lips" that surround the vagina). Infibulation: narrowing of the vaginal opening through the creation of a covering seal. The seal is formed by cutting and repositioning the inner, or outer, labia, with or without removal of the clitoris. Other: all other harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non-medical purposes, e.g. pricking, piercing, incising, scraping and cauterizing the genital area.
  • Immediate complications can include severe pain, shock, haemorrhage (bleeding), tetanus or sepsis
  • (bacterial infection)
  • urine retention, open sores in the genital region and injury to nearby genital tissue
  • Long-term consequences can include: recurrent bladder and urinary tract infections; cysts; infertility; an increased risk of childbirth complications and newborn deaths; the need for later surgeries. For example, the FGM procedure that seals or narrows a vaginal opening (type 3 above) needs to be cut open later to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth. Sometimes it is stitched again several times, including after childbirth, hence the woman goes through repeated opening and closing procedures, further increasing and repeated both immediate and long-term risks.
alessandra15

About Women for Women International | Help Women Victims of War and Rape | Women for Wo... - 1 views

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    Our Mission: Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies. We're changing the world one woman at a time.
Desirea' Perkins

Rape Statistics - 0 views

It is estimated that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read. One in three of the 4,000 women questioned by the Community of Information, Empowerm...

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