{"id":8351,"date":"2021-06-10T22:53:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2021-06-21T13:21:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:21:22","slug":"puntland-state-completely-to-ban-female-genital-mutilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/06\/10\/puntland-state-completely-to-ban-female-genital-mutilation\/","title":{"rendered":"Puntland State completely to ban female genital mutilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>Somalia&#8217;s semiautonomous state of Puntland on Thursday completely banned female genital mutilation (FGM), officials announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision came after a cabinet meeting chaired by the state&#8217;s President Said Abdullahi Deni in state capital Garowe, where the ministers voted to completely ban the practice, also known as female circumcision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Awil Sheikh, the justice minister of the northeastern state, told reporters that violators of the ban, including the hospitals and midwives as well as individuals, would face punishment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State lawmakers will now vote on the FGM act, which will become law after approval by the region&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Puntland is the first state in the horn of African country to completely ban the controversial practice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Somali Health and Demographic Survey (SHDS) indicates a prevalence of 99% &#8212; one of the highest in the world &#8212; among women and girls aged 15 to 49, according to UNFPA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/puntland-state-in-somalia-to-ban-female-genital-mutilation\/2269951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0Somalia&#8217;s semiautonomous state of Puntland on Thursday completely banned female genital mutilation (FGM), officials announced. The decision came after a cabinet meeting chaired by the state&#8217;s President Said Abdullahi Deni in state capital Garowe, where the ministers voted to completely ban the practice, also known as female circumcision. Awil Sheikh, the justice minister of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-protection-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}