Djibouti: ‘The New Generation Is Different’ – in Djibouti, Survivors and Allies Lobby to End Female Genital Mutilation

“I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down,” said Hawa’a Mohamed Kamil. Now 30, she was subjected to female genital mutilation at just six years old – an experience that left not only physical but also psychological scars.

“I’m afraid of men, of everyone, of everything,” she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Female genital mutilation is internationally recognized as a human rights violation, and involves altering or injuring the female genitalia for…