SINGAPORE, April 4 — Amid the crowds of people at the Kampong Gelam Ramadan bazaar looking for food or clothes for Hari Raya, a group was making its rounds distributing...
SINGAPORE, April 4 — Amid the crowds of people at the Kampong Gelam Ramadan bazaar looking for food or clothes for Hari Raya, a group was making its rounds distributing booklets advocating its cause: To end the practice of female genital cutting in Singapore.
Asked for its stance on FGC, the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore said that it “holds the position that any form of procedure which has been medically proven to bring harm, including female genital mutilation or FGM, should be avoided”.joined the advocacy group at the Kampong Gelam Ramadan Bazaar on Friday night, it was distributing its booklets along Kandahar Street.
The group sees its outreach at the Ramadan bazaars as a kind of grassroots or “guerilla” advocacy strategy, where it primarily reaches out to a demographic whom it believes is most impacted by the practice. “They might be thinking ‘oh, this might be a booklet on where to find FGC in Singapore, where to find the doctors who do FGC’ — which is also good, because then these are the people who might pass these booklets to maybe their children or their nieces and nephews, and kind of unsuspectingly pass on information to counter FGC, in the hopes of encouraging it,” said Saza.
“So when I educated myself further, I realised this is something I don’t want to do if I had a daughter,” the 25-year-old added. “In this holy month, such sensitive topics shouldn’t be brought up during this month, I feel,” said the 30-year-old. “Maybe if they do it before or after, it’s fine.”The United Nations' Population Fund, the body's sexual and reproductive health agency, said that girls and women who have undergone FGM “live predominately in sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab states, but FGM is also practised in select countries in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America”.
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