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our main topics today for initiation rites before we talk about let's look at what some young men have to go through the numbers may not be. this suffer mental and physical pain across africa different cultures. from boyhood to manhood initiation rituals in south africa many young men who sat lies that's a result. close to the fall river early in the morning and these initiation students practice traditional chants it is a highly secretive process we are lucky out of 20 students these 5 and their teacher are willing to talk they perform a cleansing ritual in the river every morning these schools are infamous for their allegedly brutal methods but this young initiate shows no signs of fear. some

guys are scared but that's only because other people like such things so some have this fear because this is our culture i fear nothing if you like most of the boys here have to go through it. the traditional close. and pretty ethnic groups believe a boy can only become a man if he goes through the rites of passage like. stick fighting and hunting the rite of passage culminates with the circumcision of the students performed in an open field by a traditional healer while only a minority of the schools are accused of mistreating their students many push questionable ideas about masculinity. because once you become one of these planes you can go to cry it's like. someone you have posed that we can feel pain is lake here we have a. little bit to be attitudes like this made this young man's experience all the

more painful at the age of 18 or lani a course was sent by his father to an initiation school as soon as he arrived he and his cousin was subjected to daily beatings but cousin was a proud young man and defied the humiliations so he was often taken aside and punished repeatedly with further beatings one evening the eldest took him away once again to teach him a lesson this time he never returned and never came back because he was a fighter. was one post and of course then him self for. the pretend to a point where. they killed. and the new realize that too far in the ages came back and tonight i think. the initiation schools on to registered all monitored much like female genital mutilation initiates can also die

as a result of botched circumcisions traditionally known as. or lose one's manhood for ever. any aust about the whereabouts of his cousin one of the eldest threatened him with the same fate and he knew then that he had to flee for me i had to choose in terms of her to my mother and my. by being it is a. good to my mother in my being did so i said and thought which one is best. well arnie opted for a life that's nights he ran away and never returned but his decision brought disgrace on his family and he's too scared to go back to his community today years after the ordeal he still lives far from his village and has no contact with his parents. i've been in a lot of fights. as you know even this one make you constantly

have to prove yourself as a man and i don't think that will and. and to get confirmation from. having an open discussion about the point of initiation rites is almost impossible because the young men are not supposed to talk about their experiences. many who are traumatised carried with them for the rest of their lives. in south africa a little more than 400 young men have lost their lives in the past 7 years now the challenges faced by these young men is small to play forward when we talk about young women i'm referring here to female genital mutilation or of g.m. for most young women and girls it's a violation of their physical and mental wellbeing.

hello there and welcome to the spread a safe space where we get to discuss everything sex and relationships so there are 4 types of female genital cutting also known as female genital mutilation or f g m b type one is the partial or total removal of the clear terrorists type 2 is the partial or total removal of the clearest and believe me a menorah type 3 is the narrowing of the vital orifice then using the womb shot they leave a small hole the size of a pinky finger to urinate and for menstruation once she has intercourse for the 1st time it's up to the man to open her up again which obviously causes a lot of pain and bleeding type for includes all of the harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non medical purposes for example piercing burning or incisions so many women have and continue to experience both sexual and reproductive health

issues as a result of this some of the effects could include complications during their menstrual. hemorrhage and infections so severe because death in an effort to g.m.c. there are communities worldwide that are working hard to eradicate the practice this involves having conversations about the dangers involved. all parts off of g.m. are still common in many african countries what a later edition of the treaty. it is a minor problem with a lot of increase. in kenya's messiah region many young woman lost her looks back to when the goal of this painful procedure just preached to a young woman about washing when and confronts her mother who forced her to be caught. in the year 2011 kenya passed

a law that basically said that female genital mutilation was illegal despite this it's still being practiced across the country and even here where we are in our county and we want to investigate why and i'd like to begin with selena who is actually a member of this community and an activist i know for a fact that you had said to your mother that you didn't want to undergo this right and she forced you to i think for me my mom because she wanted me to grow up like a normal my say girl child because my grandmother used to go to watch many girls being circumcised so it was such a traumatic experience for me and i kept telling my mom that it's something i never want to go through so she didn't think that my decision or my choice counted so she went ahead and decided for me the event planned as a surprise ceremony and upon coming home from visiting my uncle everything was said

and i found a group of women and they dislike me in and forced me. so normally apostle we've just heard from your daughter that you forced her to get f g m why did you do that . camilla and not the mother of my only member of the mill wouldn't. let me tell you my life. so you mean to tell me that if there was no law against f g m you would still practice it. among one night. when i'm sam as i did then another one. then than either mom i don't know. that they'd let them out amongst and. so let me ask the men in this community we have some very good looking morons here dodie come up one on me walk you must say one is ok oh i'm one i'm can buy i had to cut.

mr. good to cook i think it might be. but idea we're talking about a 100 full practice here one of the long term effects of f.j. and what have you had to contend with psychologically if jim is not something that ends with the day you have got it something that follows you for a lifetime 2 hours after they cut you start she varying you start feeling fever your body temperatures rise so you can contract infections that those other short times after you are no much you are even the mrs coming out is easier challenge another thing is that when you are mad that you go through a process called if you believe another to be open then when you are you want to give birth and in our community we give but as long as we can so that means after every but you have to be cut for you to pass the child yes all right we're also

hearing from all these women who have undergone if g.m. that it does cause complications that it's harmful so do you want another one of your daughters to go through that. no matter. when i'm with you and i name my boss and. how when and i mean you couldn't buy. chief here you are somebody comes to the police station and says i've just been forced to go through and we've read some instances where the police officers ask them for photos of the thing happening this is not realistic what makes these guys not report the time they got there that being nothing more now. they're stigmatized with their yeah that is that is that is out he'll be because. most of the stations don't have. press 10 protections and most of the things that tell maybe a i had to go to the group or to the police station so but isn't that why we have

so many layers of administration so that if the police if you as a chief is not able to come to this community should you be able to send people to survey. i sent people. to check no i mean if we're saying that the people being circumcised or you know going through f g m a 9 or 10 what how will they know to come to report what we do and not about help us a lot we collaborate with the churches the village elders and the community at large ok but to to to be fair chief we already know that that's not working it's not really working entirely so let's talk about arrests have there been any people arrested in iraq. have a for many even the kids ok so days not agreeing with you but i want to come to salina 1st because is this ringing true to you do you feel like you can trust the police officers to enforce the law 1st of all we don't have any police station in

may really chief we're being told you don't even have a police station here so where would you even begin. in fact we have here she's saying she's saying in most or in most every tree in fact that is no so how do you enforce a law when they enforce those and not that we do try. ok so speaking of stakeholders cuz. what more can we do as women to work with the women who are still going through this how can we be more active stakeholders i feel like we really need to be able to understand the ways in which different communities are able to absorb information and then use that and take that and find ways to educate women and my more precise question is how do we begin to change the mindset of mama who is old and very set in her ways how do we begin to educate or to have conversations with her in a way that she can have

a ha moment where she's like actually we need to stop that ok education is something that you're very keen on is this the way forward to stop after him do you think we have a center in mostly row it's more of a rescue center now because girls are falling into that institution is getting child marriage and if g.m. so creating said since this is in guess a new kitchen will be a huge. thing that can solve this issue of g.m. ok saudia what is your proposal moving forward how do we finally get rid of this we need to have county and community based approaches for my community maybe engaging the religious leaders in a walk for the must i maybe alternative right rite of passage might what because these people are have values attached to if so how do we do link if jim from the ledge on how do we dealing if g.m. from a culture what are the political leadership doing about it our female politicians

to begin with you're talking about changes right from the top all the way to the bottom this is where we have to call it a wrap they've been fantastic solutions which have been suggested i really hope the people who can implement them are listening and speaking to you chief thank you for watching. raising awareness is the best way to cause lasting change and i because that is exactly what some people do they've created a radio program and on this program they discuss all manner of topics like abortion and. 18 year old greece the rule has been the junior reporter for 6 years she lives in the capital of the ivory coast in her society women do not have the same rights as men and certain topics like female genital mutilation simply are not talked about but grace doesn't shy away from tough topics today's radio report is

about abortion. people don't talk about eat anything you say thing to keep secret from their families which cues a lot of young groups to be complicated to talk to people about abortion but how do my best to convince them it's a topic we have to interrupt late. but the subject is taboo in the ivory coast because many people consider it america all interference with god's will many abortions take place in secret without medical support and on the hygiene and unsafe conditions greece wants to open the conversation oh my dear we notice that more and more you have an abortion i would like to know what you think about. things like this risky the girl could die become infertile have consequences for her social life it could hurt her physically and women's empowerment remains a challenge in topic in the country i villains are not used to being asked to these

questions especially not by a young woman breaking the code of silence this is the goal of the radio show a young person a message here everything will be discussed sexuality domestic violence rape or female genital mutilation the project was launched in 2014 since then greece and had colleagues producing one hour show every saturday stephanie is one of the senior jenner. as to who supports the junior reporters. in the fall so you know it is the kids opened up they expressed their feelings they talked about things they would not have talked about before they got involved. in what used to be awkward has become normal for the 18 year old and that fills greece's with pride. we need to congratulate young girls like gracie take initiative because thanks to them we can move forward really we need to encourage them. encouraging young girls to speak up this is what degrees do and her program stands for so. this

thing cuts. yes because. that will then grease us decided to study journalism and she's determined to empower other young girls like her. to me it's a very difficult to get over shyness but i encourage my friends my grandparents my parents my brothers and sisters the people i know to talk about taboo subjects but if we don't talk about it no one will do it for us. least once to continue speaking out for the voiceless not raising her voice is simply not an option anymore. speak up raise your voice that is the message that i got from that last report and here is strong voice straight out a comp ugandan boxer patricia is their brain in well kick boxing champion but that time well try to hold us this she won't fall accrete until she's defeated

sexual harassment in uganda sport less than you don't want to mess with. 13 titles to his name patricia is the reigning world boxing champion in the female like. it did a lot. courage to stand up it takes a lot of courage to have to make it to the top i mean even when you make it to the top some people still doubt but if you listen to the voices of other people than listening to yourself you find out you block out your soul from what really you want to be. true i'll take area she has faced negativity in discrimination in uganda kick boxing is considered immense on the sport so patricia's rise to the top was an uphill struggle.

people are not going to and that's what i want to change. just to be one for you to want to. i choose to be a champion swash because when i was a young that i had a lot of trans bedroom's don't come usually. so i reached a point whereby i said i have followed enough but get back turning me but why do i have to tell myself the 2 time world champion isn't just a tough opponent in the ring she also supports female athletes who have suffered sexual harassment and violence up a large has a very clear message for the paper treating people are mentally sick because you have something to show to the world but someone is actually limiting access to reach where you want to go many of the girls were crying about sexual harassment a lot of them but it's never occurred to me because once i showed them what i wanted. no one even ever thought about coming that here patricia this underscores

for me my school days with the hell out of today patricia couple of noise that you can't just let your fists speak for themselves in your home village in goa the 29 year old founded a club for mostly young female keystrokes and she believes that hope for a little future starts with the young generation is specially if leaders also work towards creating a safer environment to fit their develop their talents they can do this we can achieve it we are greater than we are actually we are the beginning of everything. this year she is focused on defending the world title she is convinced that he achievements and spier more african girls to stay focused on their dreams. when was the last time you waste up your voice how did you speak up against inequality and your pressure of women let us know at 77 r d w dot com or through our community on facebook now from kampala we head

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a lot by training well they make i think i mean they own land in that income something like that. many of the letters of the time even to most people in the news when you and i like to sit in the newsgroups because we need to be there for them it is a sham to take no chances for people to think that the only thing that pleased but then most of that. that was done not received here to the next the largest dump site is stuck my duty of the robbins most of the always ends up here then article then there are many people see no drugs or crackers. we see ourselves beyond the dogs our standard or a book city we are going to chance than ours. it's not. to be here just. the. same thing.

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