{"id":1331,"date":"2025-05-19T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:21:52","slug":"06-25-unite-to-end-fgm-millions-of-girls-are-still-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"#06-25 Unite to End FGM!\u00a0Millions of girls are still at risk\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FGM stands for female genital mutilation. In Nairobi&#8217;s Kibera slum, Nabuki, whose name means fatherless child, tells her childhood experience of forced genital cutting and child marriage.\u00a0Siyama Ismail is a human rights advocate, Nubian Cultural Ambassador, counsellor and social worker born and working in Kibera, who works to eradicate FGM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>African Union Youth Envoy Aya Chebbi from Tunisia moderated a panel titled Change Social Norms: Abandon Female Genital Mutilation, at Women Deliver in Vancouver, 2016. As of 2025, the UN Population Fund estimates 27 million girls are still at risk around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that the body part clitoris is mentioned. (Not on the FCC forbidden words list but may worry some people.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Produced by Diana Wanyonyi and Frieda Werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-06-25EndFGM_28_54-128kbps.mp3\">http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-06-25EndFGM_28_54-128kbps.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FGM stands for female genital mutilation. In Nairobi&#8217;s Kibera slum, Nabuki, whose name means fatherless child, tells her childhood experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4,9,61,17,159,27,227,32,36,162,42,60,216,282,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-all","category-archive","category-childhood","category-education","category-family","category-health","category-kenya","category-health-mental-health","category-politics","category-public-health-and-safety","category-regional","category-society-and-culture","category-subcultures","category-surgery","category-tunesia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}