yes and you are course watching news from berlin coming up docs female genital mutilation victim seek help in germany i'm a spice or. welcome to the but is the gate here for d.w.i. tree a place to talk about some. place else our coverage. 3 more. slowly have caused let's have a look at some of the other must leave books so you don't want to miss a. good. weekend d.w. . in space can be i know what it means to experience genital mutilation as a little girl the after effects the resulting pain and disability my hands still

show the complication snowman him. every day fatima coren battles with what was done to her as a child in somalia for more than 30 years she has worked in germany as an interpreter and author now more and more unaccompanied young women who have undergone f.p.m. have been coming to germany for help. vs the by and question because that's what this massive destruction of sexuality is absolutely deliberate. and since policy that is the central motive for this 1000 year old tradition target women are not supposed to be able to act out their sexuality on sex and especially not enjoy it because the stuff on software.

95 percent of women in somalia have undergone genital mutilation fatima corn was born there are $964.00 to a family of nomads she was caught at the age of 7 according to what is sometimes called fairy onic tradition. in somalia and here in somalia where i come from there's only one type of cussing backlit or is removed and partially scraped off down to the bone. yet then the entire in a layby us scraped out totally like scraping leather. and then what's left of the labor mature a is either peeled off from the inside or incised pierced and then it is also in together from front to back until it's like this. is when we feel. that it's actually too big smaller until the opening that's left can just

a bit thick here tip tip. and that's where urine and menstrual blood has to flow out of the sewing is done with whatever they heard i personally was sewn up with. the wound became infected and the resulting sepsis damaged her nervous system. in 1979 fatima corn came to germany where she wrote several books about her experience and became a qualified interpreter. working as an interpreter she has met many women with similar experiences like namco who was a child when she fled somalia. is going to name call been nemmco i'm 20 years old and i come from somalia and i've been here in germany for 5 years.

faddle has been like a mother to me someone who's always there for me just. not in a pistol don't have a zipper i keep telling you country even if he really were really. good he won't listen to me anyway. he may love. the man i want a woman who's cut because if she isn't she's not a real woman. she's almost less she's unclean. and she's not a real woman and not one you'd want. but i'm a corn arranged surgery for her to reopen the sewn up area. but nemmco was still struggling both physically and psychologically. cost of the stream of the new you had problems with the gynecologist but i didn't remember it being this bad. it made my stomach hurt to see you so tense

so i'm good i knew you couldn't open or close your legs they were so stiff even when the doctor wasn't doing anything or if of the more of a look at my hand she said i'm not touching you you were trembling. so i didn't hardly since then i've had this tension. of mine involved in my belly i'm so tense. and even up on my shoulder up here. on. as i think of because i know it's all in your head right i feel like all of this is in your head because the memory is so awful so brutal the internet was refused to get my. nemmco was cut in somalia at the age of 5. she says she can't remember it anymore but has recurring nightmares. i dreamed

someone is standing in front of me and wanting to cut me. when i was younger when i was cut i had dreams where he screamed and there was blood all over the floor and the strange lady who had cut me was there and then i couldn't shut my eyes anymore . at the age of 13 she left somalia made her way to libya and somehow managed to get on a boat. she had just turned 15 when she arrived in germany. in his practice gynecologist christoph sam has experience with the suffering caused by female genital mutilation or after. he was one of a handful of gynecologists in germany who have specialized in this problem he has been treating affected women for more than 20 years he writes expert opinions and

arranges operations including surgery to reconstruct the clearest. i'm not. this is science he's the practice this are patriarchal societies in which women play a fundamentally subordinate role. and from that subordinate role they can only become a halfway respected member of society through marriage. that is the bottom line in all the practicing societies is itself but the entry ticket to being married to it is being cut how you got it via couldn't if a girl is not cut she can't be married because she's looked down on as a prostitute. and a prostitute you have to up to viet it felt. violated us so is is it because that's the way it has. you know others and grandmothers carrying it out to give their

young daughters a realistic chance in a society. and also as a shaft their sense of duty is so ingrained that's the phones that the women themselves promoted because they know how oppressed they are in their society as augustine easton's these are this way they ensure that the young women at least get this chance of being respected in the society alternately they ensure that she can survive it's. the men of the ad the men are raised in the same way. as you may only marry your girl who is cut films if you discover on your wedding night that she isn't it's your duty under threat of social ostracism to shame the girl and send her back to where parents are so both genders are the victims of this 1000 year old traditional targets on. the world health organization estimates that 200000000 women worldwide have undergone genital mutilation

a growing number of them are seeking shelter in germany and the offshore it is there are becoming more aware of the issue however there is. a lack of expertise about after i am in refugee agencies and the health system that's where volunteers like fathom alcorn come in. when my friends me sometimes people ask me why i do all this work with the girls and it's so draining. but i think back then i had no help in that situation and i'd have loved to have an experienced woman tell me i know the right talk to i'll take you there if i don't want to counseling and then he can ask so you have someone to hold you tight that's hostage the fist i didn't have anyone and i vowed to myself to help girls if i had the chance. to move the speech and. that is why she founded the n.g.o.s nala.

hello another girls at the university stop close to. that i'll be over then 3 minutes and you'd better be there. every 2 weeks she meets with her proteges in this house in munich district she met most of them while acting as their interpreter they now live scattered throughout the area they come from eritrea somalia ethiopia and most are still minors so their faces may not be shown on camera but still proud are you looking for an internship i guess i don't exactly have a place yet but i will you also want to go into a medical profession right no know. what do you want to be what profession thank you know kenda got to know god kid oh a child mind that's so nice. most of all they like talking about boys after all they're young girls west of his he was in his post and self so that you

can see everything is that. you know you like all the foreigners and they just go they stand like this all the time ok just to go and watch them is hilarious. tries to find a playful way to familiarize the girls with the new open western world of femininity and. sexuality despite their trauma. you know me jim cooper it is you know like girls are phenomenal. they talk about sex all the time about having babies about their figures and make up but i think they're all in delayed puberty the confusion of wall flight and detention in libya prevented them from acting out their femininity and here they can. sex i

think sex is something to fuse for them because they don't really comprehend it yet they all think they're in love every day and someone else but i honestly think they have no idea what sex really means expediter. most of the girls have had reversal surgery they know that genital mutilation carried out in their childhood will impact their sex lives forever. as of was just brought all of us out. we've talked about sex about cutting and how when a woman has been cut how it will be later when she's married how the man will treat her what he'll do. when a woman who's been cut who's had the operation i don't know how it is that others but you won't have sexual feelings like other women. so to give. won't be so open you just where feel anything. wrong.

discussions with a sex therapist have left namco confused she was told that her entire body is an erogenous zone but for now that is just theory. i loved by my one of them said that you can create sex feelings in your head and you can have these thoughts but i don't know how that works and. when those kinds of questions come up father mo is a counsellor a best friend a mother it's an exhausting task. she's always on the go always traveling on public transport. in a sense she is still a nomad even though she has been a german citizen for decades she's constantly on the phone usually it's an

emergency despite whatever happens you are in the best of hands with the doctors here and been. there before him put us in. oh no i have to get off it's living again. if i need to get out laughs. we're going to start opening. thank you. father mo is not only an interpreter because she is involved in networks fighting f.p.m. she is a go to person for the authorities. it's common when i get calls from the police from hospital emergency rooms because even come at 4 in the morning comedy and with this being so if i want some time off i have to turn everything off where i can be reached. she is

the expert in southern germany in cases involving genital mutilation today the social workers at a migrant reception center in munich have asked for her help. to father this is fatima again can the family come out i'm waiting at the gate. and. bring the things starting with putting. up with the. high low you so you know you said a little humor you. do have a cold that was fun to get those objectives before the broken up on the left and. this family with 4 daughters is due to be deported to nigeria they say the girl's face after i am there fatima reads through their decision their asylum application has been rejected subsidiary protection has not been granted the pregnant mother is about to have another girl. she and her children are supposed to leave germany with

them 30 days. that's where the problem is that one of the 4 daughters is cuts and the other 3 and if one of the girls is cuts and they are deported that means that the other girls are at risk in their home country that's the problem. this is a. family has decided to go public with their story. matters says parents have the 2nd youngest girl caught while he was at work and his wife was at the market. trucking. is easier yeah but i'm funny because this is one blunder something that's interesting still and they say you have to go home. yet this is what this is because they do believe that your mother. plea to your wife.

i want to see. the never going to. yeah i don't believe in this lawsuit not even. live in this legit also the. dot so why do people want to give much. that's why with. germany. when there is a risk of after german authorities check whether the person can move elsewhere in their country to escape or in the case of this family they suggest the wife and children hide out in lagos this gap yes it's kind of 1st of all there was no interpreter for their language and secondly they're demanding of this family that their hideout somewhere in lagos. this is how if they like it will work out somehow we'll have to risk it should be. that makes me so angry african culture isn't so

simple that i can leave the countryside and just hide out somewhere in the city and . where am i supposed to hide out what does that mean right out at most i can camp somewhere on the street with my children manicured and compu after 2 weeks they'll start their deliberately risking that these children will be how. it leaves me speechless when the shadow. as a rule the federal office for migration and refugees. does not comment on individual cases but the department head did respond to our question on whether the agency actually recommended hiding out in a huge city like lagos. but hideouts was put in quotation marks here. they also say requirements that we have

to check if we believe that international relocation is an alternative to the most important thing of course is that this new location has to be safe it has to be reachable and it must offer the person the possibility of earning a minimum livelihood. and exist in. lagos is the city of millions. lagos is located in the christian south of the country. so basically we can assume that it will be possible to find a place to live there and build up new contacts. on to corn. fatima korn has brought the case to do where she and a colleague are attending

a meeting of integra it's a network of organizations in germany that are active against f g m they include plan international amnesty international in misery or among other aid organizations . the main topic at this annual meeting the batf. i'm. here and can be broken off immediately if the woman says look i'm making an application because i'm afraid that i will be caught or because i have already been caught. then the employee has to stop immediately and say i'm getting my superior and they will decide who will continue the hearing. there the idea. thank goodness since last year the bank has invited me for the 2nd time and more in the future to school the decision makers. and that's

a good start to giving them some information about. sam says the bamf employees often the 5 western standards when they make decisions about african families a mistake he says because africans tend to be more strongly bound up in family and tribal structures women are generally associated with the family of her husband that is the case in both christian and muslim regions in the evening he finally gets around to reading the agency's rejection of the nigerian family's application . of the finnish punched understood for the threat has been completely misrepresented in the decision. either out of ignorance or out of malice and their have is then the fact is that there is social pressure not just from the mother in law but in the entire area and ultimately in all of nigeria. if so no matter where they are as long as it hasn't been wiped out and that will take decades in nigeria

of us and the young daughters are directly at risk that they are being sent into certain danger and sooner or later a practice will take place a practice that is not allowed under german law or international law. and needs to start this. the gynecologist promises to send in britain comments on the rejection. 12 years ago he published a handbook for the health system to make gynecologists nurses and midwives more aware of the issue of female genital mutilation. as a d.v. how does the does your h.o.a.'s come up with a kind of classification based on anatomical features. 1st group in type one is covers changes made to the clearest for and not for them is to provide for to us

includes everything beyond that it has been done to the labia that this type 3 means the removal of the woman's entire outer genitalia followed by the sewing up of the side edges of the wound so that a scar plate forms over it with a tiny millimeter sized opening navin you can really meter miss and then of $1.00 to $4.00 describes everything that is not covered by the 1st 3 categories of meaning all the other measures like burning in size ing or piercing carried out on the labia and the vagina and. female genital mutilation takes place all around the world in african countries including egypt somalia djibouti mali and working a fast so more than 75 percent of women are infected. more than 50 percent are affected in mauritania and indonesia and the incidence is between 5 and 50 percent

in many other countries in south america africa and the middle east f t m is practiced in both muslim and christian regions. federal corn is on her way to cologne to the academy of media arts she's come to me to film student barrel. barrel who comes from kenya became well known after she was able to film circumcisions of boys and girls in her village in 2010 she is a korea an ethnic group at home on lake victoria in kenya and tanzania. this is your 1st film the cut. are you afraid with all those people this kind of thing frightens me are they for or against circumcision this is again not a free division i had a very visionary and i'm better for it by going to a circumcision. you can see that this point here is going to be circumcised because

he's wearing different clothes. and it was really really terrible for me. it had been. flowing i did the filming with the women because my cameraman was not allowed to go there. it was so had for me to see those girls yeah and then they're standing there waiting to be cut into. it was hard for. it was not is for me i could reach home immediately with i'm at my home the next that cry but then my mother would ask me why did you decide to do something that difficult but i will not have there is a where cry i was crying because i saw this young gus and that i remember what i went through. and then the following day i would still go back. it was not easy but

i had to tell the story this is one of my childhood stories that when i said i will tell the story when i grow up so i couldn't back down i wanted to do that i don't it was hard but i'm happy that. every other year the korea carry out circumcisions on both boys and girls the tribal elders declare the cutting season open. female genital mutilation is against the law in both kenya and tanzania so the girls are cut in secret during the boys' circumcision ceremonies. in. the mara region on lake victoria is well known to tourists who come to see masai mara and serengeti national parks what is less known is the tradition of

circumcising girls that is still practiced here it's a taboo subject that is not discussed openly. the bishop of the catholic diocese of mo so much in tanzania was one of the 1st african church men to raise his voice against after. 3 i wondered if the valve which ina and ram were karma known as mama regina is the women's affairs representative for the diocese. where she has spent decades campaigning for the bodily integrity of girls in the region. here the cuttings has grown and you know what. is sneered the town this is. the village which is near the town as more than your. 5 from the town things are getting tough tough

although we have succeeded here but it's to me we have 75 prescient. yes to doing it. mama regina is suspicious everyone here knows that cutting girls is forbidden in tanzania that may be why the cutter says she has stopped doing it how many girls has she cut she says she doesn't know any more there are many. that we use at our because the clutter is a slippery she says so flower helped. you hold the clippers with one hand and cut it with the other. and what does she cut it with a razor blade she replies when. someone diocese has set up shelters in schools and cloisters where girls under threat can take refuge when the

elders announce the coming season. and. that's why we have trained. in primary schools we have started the clubs to do clubs so that is the kind inform us. 13 year old when a frieda is one of the threatened girls this is the 2nd time she has run away from home she is hiding out in the one school because her family wants to have her cut. the main man that did barely food for the 1st mission but they said in money. and she then. went and it's because they did not know but she then who did in. the circumcision of boys and girls is celebrated in

a big festival joined by the entire village often it's an occasion to marry off the girls their families receive money and livestock a brutal trade. do you think to sell beans here feeling pain then their injury. when a frieda is not safe yet after her mother died her stepmother and her older brother wanted to have her cut so she fled again to the nuns now her stepmother is also dad at the funeral her brother once again weighs the threat. she has brought mama regina to see her family they have gathered to negotiate when a fetus faint the big brother in the purple shirt is now the head of the family. i said you are trying to make a baby united by. feeding your tradition and. he didn't answer. in my main roads i knew that if this is the one who is

forcing. you to be cut and. we do protected this. hereafter and said i'm not forcing him and. so i knew that he is the one who has. to do it. the brother points out that he has to feed the family and therefore it needs the money. would have freedom knows what that means. you are not talking to. anybody because. if they could. he could not look like then.

everything you do people like me. would have created would like to stay in the boarding school run by the nuns money donated from the various helps to finance the shelters for threatened girls. barrel mcgurk o. works through her own trauma in her films her latest project is a film about women who have undergone after you get reversal surgery in germany. in the head i couldn't find any woman who was willing to say ok i've had surgery and i like myself and i've made the right decision but why don't women want to talk about that. stupid. i just don't get it over oh i do understand

that it isn't easy to talk about cutting. it it didn't. there's this feeling of shame they're ashamed people don't talk about it in some african countries they're even a bit scared of a curse or evil spirits and someone who's a guy used. that is why beryl margot co plays the main role in her new film herself she asks do i need an operation to get to know my sexuality. and. who. feel so i want to help other women but i cannot be able to help other women when i'm still stuck with my story when the past is wanting me so i decided to tell my own story. but then we brought it to myself. so

yeah i'm helping myself so that they could be able to help other women. back in munich but she doesn't get to take a break i was having problems. they had. she's stressed out and she's not coming i asked her to come today so we could talk. but no she's stressed and then she writes oh everything is awful just terrible. a moment later she sends hearts and says i love you you're the best antti in the world leave. he. she has a boyfriend and she hasn't been able to deal with it all. he's not far enough. on the other hand she's head over heels in love but she's so afraid of what sex will mean a flea. i'm trying to support her. and

i have a boyfriend now he comes from germany does she have butterflies in her tummy. sure you know yeah i do. in laugh and terrified. today she has an appointment with dr tubb here in munich she operated on them co 4 years ago. nemmco hasn't been back to this practice in a while visits to gynecologist arounds traumatic memories her most recent visit to

a doctor in say was a disaster. it is this kind of. code doesn't tolerate the birth control pill that the other gynecologist prescribe for her she'd like to try a different one. i have a boyfriend. i don't know about that tell me about it you see how is it with your boyfriend or how are you intimate relations is their pain is it possible is it easy. up to now we haven't had sexual relations it's not possible. i get panicky and tense scared. gadhafi so we thought we'd take our time. if i take the pill then maybe the painful go

away. and maybe it will get better fast. i was watched by now but i think since the surgery there shouldn't be such a strong pains. thing. i think maybe you're not ready in your head. because the form if you can pick up the prescription and everything you need at the reception is. the nigerian family's baby has been born helen much us is both happy and desperate the girl has been given the name miracle that's what this family is hoping for their lawyer pay to henslow has contested the asylum rejection but the decision in germany only affects helen and her children her husband's asylum application will be decided in italy according to what's known as the dublin regulation you case

is. a problem. her husband has to leave for italy immediately that would leave helen alone with her 5 children. taken from you. and she was 30 years ago. but you didn't you didn't show more empathy you can show more emotions they think believe that your situation is the problem what's the situation right now is that. you go through what each. before the decision of the. made. you got a decision. gun ecologist kristoff sam has written an expert opinion on the case of the missing few. really for us

he writes that there is a concrete danger for all the children i think you. know this is very helpful definite. please submit to the court. now all the nigerian family can do is sit and wait for the court's decision. meanwhile nemmco feels she's arrived in germany sometimes there's someone waiting for her at the train station after school. hey great to see you. good to see you too. are you ok so that's good thank you yes fine but there's a lot to do for school. i don't mean always underscored. should we drive out to kenya say for. never go from somalia and flown lianne from bavaria

both come from places that value tradition. but one flaw they are in is not under social pressure never call struggles with a strict moral code of her native country. each is on i am who i am and i follow my feeling that mark and that's why i'm together with floating on a bloody i love how i do give him her as a. somali german romance with big obstacles and maybe with a happy ending. but in munich the martyrs family is beginning to despair but a more corn is on the receiving and the long wait in the crowded reception center is highly stressful. i did it every 2 and i. want to imply that

because of the children just the words all look i got it all inside of you i know everything today but in that we have little fight for my friends i have to stay here and throughout the. us doesn't believe her the long wait has worn her down there are 7 sharing a tiny room with the specter of ending up in nigeria after all. but a more can't relax during the lakeside outing she's organized for the girls from her knowledge group. i liked it out for me a little sadness that this family doesn't know what will happen to them you know often we hope they'll be able to stay. but i can't relax because i don't know years

and this is they're not the only family and if i have 10 other families or individuals who are in limbo like that. do you know where i don't know if they might be in deportation custody tamara. i never have penis which is why i'm a bit exposed to it even if out and show it's cup but i'm pretty exhausted and i didn't got shook up with her hard work has borne fruit some knowledge girls have finished their training and found work but it's still unclear how long they will be able to stay in germany.

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