I do some voluntary work http://collettivoteatrale.it/800-mg-neurontin-high-s1v4 neurontin for pain management So, for example, why FGM happens; I have a two-year-old niece that was at the protest on Saturday and fundamentally what she has is she's free and fearless. She will grow up into a woman that demands her rights and that's what FGM wants to stop. It's to give you fear so you don't go and demand your rights; and therefore you toe the line with what patriarchy seeks for you to do. What FGM essentially does is to break you as a woman, as a female born, and then rebuild you within the narrative. And that is fundamentally the only thing. I do agree with Naana in saying that there cannot only be one form of approach like, you know, the prosecutions are not going to do anything, but we need to look at it like any other form of gender-based violence. So we have legislation against rape but we know how hard it is for women to come forward. So we need to make it easier for young women to actually get the support and actually be supported. But let's not ourselves as organisations "other" those girls by calling them saying like you know it's a fact that it's culture, it's honour and so on. Daughters of Eve we've had because we've put no race or colour or anything on our organisation, we've had Caucasian girls come forward who have had FGM and never had a word to put to it because they were always told this was an African issue. Wherever women are not supported or protected FGM can happen.
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