Theme: Partnership with Men and Boys to Transform Social and Gender Norms to End Female Genital Mutilation.
6th of February every year is celebrated as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.
This year 2023 marks the 12th anniversary of the ‘International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation’, the day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The day provides the opportunity for Governments, Member States, Civil Society Organisations, activists and other relevant stakeholders to raise awareness, renew commitments and reiterate that Female Genital Mutilation is an unacceptable harmful practice and a violation of the basic human rights of women and girls.
FIDA Nigeria Rivers State Branch, today joins the rest of the World to mark this day. The theme of the 2023 commemorations is “Partnership with Men and Boys to Transform Social and Gender Norms to End Female Genital Mutilation”. With eight years left in this decade of action, there is great potential in eliminating this harmful practice through sustainable partnerships with men and boys. Today, men and boys are more educated and receptive to change than before, and in most countries, there is every likely hood to disapprove of Female Genital Mutilation and domestic violence than women and girls.
Partnering with men and boys, without removing the focus from women and girls, ensures families, communities, institutions, and policy-makers support and invest in girls to promote the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation.
FIDA Rivers calls on the global community and all relevant stakeholders to partner with men and boys and foster their engagement to accelerate the elimination of this harmful practice and uplift the voices of women and girls in our Society.
Adata Bio-Briggs Esq MICMC,
Chairperson FIDA Nigeria,
Rivers State Branch.
Sophia I. J. Afolayan Esq AICMC
Publicity Secretary/Editor FIDA Nigeria Rivers State Branch.
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