UNAMID
21 Mar 2017

Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a common practice in Sudan. Nine out of ten women have been subjected to this practice. The new law is a political compromise cleverly designed to please stakeholders. Girls at risk of undergoing FGM remain unprotected by the law, writes Liv Tønnessen in a blogpost on Open Democracy. Read the blogpost

Liv Tønnessen

Director of Center on Law and Social Transformation and Senior Researcher