Kejau

Thank again!

Messy cultures!

Had they not squander our little taxes and productive resources of our land
over the last 50 years - life improvement could probably naturally prune
some practices that carry no value for the practitioners.

Here we are now (can't continue to cry over spill milk). I congrat them for
taking steps to educate our people. Although many programs attempting to
stop/reduce old cultures come out condescending such as "mutulation", "1-2
kids per family", etc.

Keep it up!

Burama



On Wednesday, September 3, 2014, Kejau Touray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thanks Burama,
>
> I have forwarded your last email to others more equipped to answer you but
> I will still throw in my fifty kroners. The victims indeed suffers years of
> trauma not only from the memories but also the fact that in some cases the
> sewings are often removed when the victim marries or at childbirth and then
> re-sewn in some cultures. Recently a medical doctor was arraigned before
> the courts in UK for this practice.
> I do not agree to some notion that the sex life is any different, though,
> at least not in type 3 cases, the practice found in our part of the world,
> but in type 3 cases, sex may be traumatic, especially when the sewing has
> not been fully removed, hence the reason they sew it in the first place.
>
> KR.
>
> Kejau
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 08:46:56 -0400
> From: [log in to unmask]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);>
> Subject: Can Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) be reversed?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);>
>
> Kejau
>
> Yeah! You may be right am wrong.
>
> For the most part I like to stay far away from cultures.
>
> The processes you mentioned could be very painful to perform especially
> under some of those conditions. What You didn't point out is how the
> quality/quantity of life of those people/societies affected - say
> reproductively, sexually, physically, psychologically, longevity, etc?
>
> I choose not to circumcise my daughter amid fierce opposition of my
> sisters - not because is harmful to her but is not religiously sanctioned
> and is socially is a choice. I worked in the NGO world for good 10 years
> with a component of this particular program - not sure of it impact. The
> message wasn't very compelling on why is bad considering some of those
> cultures has that practice for centuries without a visible harm.
>
> I'm not against the campaign to stop or reduce it but I think could be
> address better by overall improving the standard of living of our people.
> The message also needs better formulation than the seemly anti-cultural
> tone. I thought Family Planning (reduce number of kids) campaign suffered
> similar fate. Now am vying into my favorite place - political education.  I
> resist!
>
> Regardless thanks for enlightment!
>
> Burama
>
> On Wednesday, September 3, 2014, Kejau Touray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi Burama,
>
> You are indeed very wrong as there is not only cutting involved especially
> in other countries like Somalia, where 99% of women are forced to sew up
> their female reproductive parts until they are betrothed. Even in The
> Gambia, you will find various degrees of FGM with type 3 most common, the
> mildest of the three, which involves cutting off the clitoris, an active
> living organ, unlike the male foreskin, which is for all intent and
> purpose, dead. Therefore the two cannot be compared. Tune into Freedom
> Newspaper's weekly women's hour with Neneh Bojang and Seedy Ceesay for a
> more intensive discussion on this and other feminism issues.
>
> KR.
>
> Kejau
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 22:44:56 -0400
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Can Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) be reversed?
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Kejau
>
> This topic is a hard one for me.
>
> My first concern is the name. I wonder why they never come with Male GM? I
> don't know if only cutting is involve warrant that naming.
>
> The science behind the arguments are as unsettled as Global
> warming/climate change. I mean what are the physical, genetical and
> physchological effects of the practice in hundreds of years of say
> Mandinkas?
>
> I could be wrong!
>
> Regards.
>
> Burama
>
> On Tuesday, September 2, 2014, Kejau Touray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> By Neneh Bojang - Neneh's Feminist Journal
>
> As the the President of The European Network for the Prevention of Harmful
> Traditional Practices (EuroNet-FGM) and the Founder/Executive Director of
> IAC Norway, I am presently honoured to be in Paris together with the
> Secretary of the Euronet –FGM/President of FORWARD Germany Dr. Tobe Levin
> regarding the  establishment of the Clitoris Restoration Fund.The Fund
> serves the purpose of reversing the damage of female genital mutilation
> through funding a clitoris restoration operation conducted by the French
> surgeon Dr. Pierre Foldes.
>
> In the last few years there has been a growing impetus to address female
> genital mutilation at national, regional and international levels. The
> adoption of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution, to ban female
> genital mutilation which the EuronetFGM along with its partners played a
> central role has for example contributed to this momentum. The decision
> reiterates the importance of enhancing efforts at the global level to
> effectively address the practice.The creation of the fund is also an
> important step in adding to this momentum and hopefully become instrumental
> in reversing the harmful effects of FGM.
>
> The full article can be found here:
>
> http://gambiadaily.co.uk/15-can-female-genital-mutilation-fgm-be-reversed
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 00:11:44 +0200
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Jammeh's Assault on Freedom of Religion in the Calipha Muhideen
> Hydara case
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>  Jammeh's Assault on Freedom of Religion in the Calipha Muhideen Hydara
> case <http://gambiadaily.co.uk/14-caliph-muhideen-hydara-case>
>
> The Caliph Muhideen Hydara and the Alkalo of Darsilame Sangharjor, Buyah
> Touray have been arraigned before the Magistrate Court presided over by
> Seranding Sanneh, charged with 'Disobedience to a Lawful Command', in that
> on they were lawfully ordered by the President of the republic of The
> Gambia to not pray Idl Fitr on Tuesday the 29 July 2014 as they happened to
> reside between Kalagie and Banjul, and not beyond Kalagie. This order was
> given in a television broadcast whenthe Banjul Elders and other Muslim
> leaders came to the State House to meet with the president, which meeting
> was broadcast live.
>
> S25(1)(c) of the 1997 Constitution guarantees a right to religion and
> right to practice that religion. So did the International Convention on the
> Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Article 18(3):
> Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs may be subject only to such
> limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public
> safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of
> others.
>
> Furthermore as forwarded by the learned senior counsel Antouman Gaye, the
> president has no power to legislate on his own, certainly not by television
> broadcast, as envisaged under s7 of the 1997 Constitution and certainly
> contrary to s25(1) of the same constitution. The counsellor then submitted
> to the magistrate to refer the matter to the supreme court, as the
> competent authority to adjudicate on this matter. The matter was to be
> decided on Monday 01 September 2014.
>
> This submission was made under s127 of the constitution, which gave the
> Supreme Court exclusive rights to interpret the constitution except under
> provisions relating to the fundamental rights and freedom, especially on
> issues on purported law making rights, such as those assume erroneously by
> the head of state.
>
>
>
>
>
> Read more here:
>
> http://gambiadaily.co.uk/14-caliph-muhideen-hydara-case
> ------------------------------
>
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>
> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:43:11 -0400
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Ebola response 'lethally inadequate '
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Ebola response 'lethally inadequate'
>
> Last updated 3 hours ago
> By James Gallagher
> Health editor, BBC News website
> [image: Nurses helping man with Ebola]
> Nurses helping man with Ebola
> A global military intervention is needed to curb the largest ever Ebola
> outbreak, according to the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.
> In a damning criticism of world leaders, it says the global response has
> so far been "lethally inadequate".
> The charity said countries were turning their back on West Africa and
> merely reducing the risk of Ebola arriving on their shores.
> More than 1,550 people have died in the outbreak which started in Guinea.
> At least 3,000 people have been infected with the virus, but the World
> Health Organization (WHO) has warned that more than 20,000 people are
> likely to be infected.
>
> 'Coalition of inaction'
> In a speech to the United Nations, the international president of MSF, Dr
> Joanne Liu, said repeated calls for help had been ignored.
> She said: "Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world
> is losing the battle to contain it.
> "Leaders are failing to come to grips with this transnational threat.
> "The WHO announcement on August 8 that the epidemic constituted a 'public
> health emergency of international concern' has not led to decisive action,
> and states have essentially joined a global coalition of inaction."
> MSF said military and civilian teams capable of dealing with a biological
> disaster were needed immediately as the spread of Ebola "will not be
> prevented without a massive deployment".
> [image: Healthcare workers visit a village]
> It is calling for more field hospitals with isolation wards to be set up,
> trained healthcare workers to be sent to the region and air support to move
> patients and medics across West Africa.
> Dr Liu added: "States with the required capacity have a political and
> humanitarian responsibility to come forward and offer a desperately needed,
> concrete response to the disaster unfolding in front of the world's eyes.
> "Rather than limit their response to the potential arrival of an infected
> patient in their countries, they should take the unique opportunity to
> actually save lives where immediately needed, in West Africa."
> The charity said that at one site in Monrovia, in Liberia, it had been
> able to set up an isolation facility with 160 beds, but said they were
> "overwhelmed" with growing queues and needed an additional 800 beds.
> In other developments:
> • 31 people have now died from a separate Ebola outbreak in the Democratic
> Republic of Congo, says the World Health Organization (WHO)
> • The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization has warned outbreak is
> putting food harvests in West Africa "at serious risk".
> • Nurses in Liberia's largest hospital are on strike, refusing to return
> to work until they are issued with protective equipment
> • After a Guinean student with Ebola escaped from a clinic in his homeland
> and took Ebola to Dakar, Senegal's president said if the student were not
> sick "he would be before the courts"
> • Ivory Coast's government allows Sierra Leone's football team to play an
> Africa Nations Cup qualifier in Abidjan despite the travel ban imposed over
> the Ebola outbreak
> The MSF criticism echoes earlier remarks from the president of the World
> Bank, Jim Yong Kim.
> In a newspaper column he said the outbreak would have been easily
> contained if it had hit a major Western city.
> He said the crisis in West Africa was down to a "disastrously inadequate
> response" from countries with the resources to help.
> "We need international organisations and wealthy countries that possess
> the required resources and knowledge to step forward and partner with West
> African governments to mount a serious, co-ordinated response," he said.
> Also speaking the the United Nations, the director-general of the World
> Health Organisation Dr Margaret Chan said: "Ebola has become a global
> threat which requires urgent global efforts in solidarity with the affected
> countries.
> "The outbreak will get worse before it gets better and it requires a
> well-coordinated big surge and huge scale-up of outbreak response urgently."
> [image: line]
>
> Ebola virus disease (EVD)
> [image: Ebola virus]
> • Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage
> • Spread by body fluids, such as blood and saliva
> • Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of
> about 55%
> • Incubation period is two to 21 days
> • There is no vaccine or cure
>
>
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