The Gambia votes to reverse landmark ban on female genital mutilation | Women’s Rights News

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Rights groups say proposed rollback of 2015 law will overturn women’s rights across the region as a whole.

The Gambia has taken steps towards lifting a ban on female circumcision, a move that could make it the first country in the world to reverse legal protections against the practice for millions of women and girls.

Politicians in the West African nation’s parliament voted 42 to four on Monday to advance the controversial bill, which would repeal a landmark 2015 ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) that made the practice punishable by up to three years in prison

Almameh Gibba, the…



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