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Breast-ironing: ‘the whole community needs an education’
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Read more “Sometimes they do it once a week, or once every two weeks, depending on how it comes back,” she added. The perpetrators, usually mothers, consider it a traditional measure which protects girls from unwanted male attention, sexual harassment and rape. Medical experts and victims regard it as child abuse which could lead to physical and […]
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Revealed: ‘dozens’ of girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK
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Perpetrators consider it a traditional measure to stop unwanted male attention Global development is supported by Inna Lazareva. A stone used for breast-ironing is placed on a fire. Photograph: Joe Penney/Reuters An African practice of “ironing” a girl’s chest with a hot stone to delay breast formation is spreading in the UK, with anecdotal evidence of […]
Read MoreSexual Health project continues after funding from Community Development Foundation
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The project to provide information and promote sexual health choices for young people, was a 3-month project by CAME Women and Girls Development Organisation (CAWOGIDO) working in partnership with other local youth groups, health partners, they organised 1 workshop and 13 sensitization campaigns to promote sexual health choices for young people in the Green Broadway […]
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