Articles by Travis Lupick
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Liberia’s Government Finding a Way to End FGM
Travis Lupick – Inter Press Service-IPS,
16 Apr 2012
Now 23 and a student at the University of Liberia, Fatu’s circumcision was part of her initiation into the secretive Sande Society, a pseudo-religious association to which most Liberian women – depending on which tribe and part of the country they are from – are members. The Sande and its male counterpart, the Poro, shape many aspects of culture, tradition, and society as a whole in this West African nation.
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