GUINEA-BISSAU: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ZERO TOLERANCE TO FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

In Guinea-Bissau, to celebrate the journey to eradicate female genital mutilation, the National Committee for the Abandonment of Traditional Practices Harmful to the Health of Women and Children has launched several awareness-raising activities the public, including conferences with health professionals; production of messages entitled quotfaces of changequot. These messages in the voices and faces of influential women and men from various civil and political organizations, who call for the eradication of the phenomenon. In order to reach the cycle of commemoration, on February 6, the sealing of the Lino Correia football stadium, in Bissau, was marked with strong awareness phrases that encourage the eradication of female genital mutilation in the country. Speaking in the act of the solemn celebration, Cadi Seidi, Minister of Women, Family and Social Protection, asked for greater involvement of the Bissau-Guinean State in the fight against this problem, in particular in the applicability of the law that criminalizes the practice, as well as in the provision of a fund in the General State Budget to deal with the situation in the country.