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United Nations · The GambiaRepealing ban would mean return of ‘one of the most pernicious forms of violence committed against women and children’A team of UN experts has urged Gambian lawmakers not to repeal a ban on female genital mutilation, saying such a move would set a dangerous global precedent.In a letter dated 8 April and made public on Thursday, the experts, led by Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said allowing the unch…See the Story
‘Right to freedom from torture’: UN experts urge the Gambia not to decriminalise FGM
100% Left coverage: 1 sources
The Gambia · The GambiaDAKAR - Gambian lawmaker Almaneh Gibba started his campaign to overturn a 2015 ban on female genital mutilation after the West African country imposed its first fines on those found guilty of the practice last year. Read more at straitstimes.com.See the Story
Gambia MP defends bid to legalise female genital mutilation
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The Gambia · The Gambia“We’re going to take a walk on the beach,” shouts a Dutch woman, smiling widely before she disappears among the dunes, kissing a Gambian who appears to be 30 years her minor. Her party, composed of three other Dutch tourists and three young locals with dreadlocks, seem neither surprised nor bothered.Seguir leyendoSee the Story
‘If you don’t have money to go to Europe by boat, you try to get there by starting a relationship with a tourist’: Sex tourism plagues Gambia
100% Left coverage: 1 sources
The Gambia · The GambiaFor Local Multidimensional Poverty Indicator Survey Monrovia, Liberia- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has supported the conduct of an intensive data validation to address missing or truncated information from the local poverty index data collection process by the Liberia Institute for Statistics & Geo-Information Service (LISGIS). According to the UNDP, this is part ofSee the Story
UNDP Supports LISGIS Data Clean-Up - News Public Trust
Female Genital Mutilation · The GambiaFGM is an awful custom. But how can Westerners criticise it when they freely allow abortion, euthanasia, and mutilating “gender-affirming” surgery in their own countries?See the Story
Where the Western Consensus on FGM Has Come Unstuck
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Xbox · SomaXbox Game Pass has a pretty respectable but not totally consistent catalog. While certain staples are there to stay, games come and go regularly. Six games are leaving on April 15th, with half of them from Amnesia developer Frictional Games. Amnesia, Soma, and more leaving Xbox Game Pass The six departures mostly seem to consist of horror and horror-themed titles. Among them are Frictional Games’ Amnesia Collection, Amnesia: Rebirth, and Soma. A…See the Story
