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| The Gambian parliament will on Monday vote on a bill to reverse the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM). | |
| A vote will be | |
| taken in the bill's second reading and after that if the house agrees, the bill | |
| will be taken through a committee for further scrutiny. | |
| The bill was introduced to parliament earlier this month by independent lawmaker Almammeh Gibba, who said it sought to "uphold religious purity and safeguard cultural norms and values". | |
| Though FGM was | |
| criminalised in The Gambia in 2015, some seek to overturn the ban claiming | |
| that it violates religious freedom and is against the country's cultural | |
| practices. | |
| But local and international human rights groups are urging lawmakers to vote against it, saying decriminalising FGM would endanger girls and women. | |
| Over 73% of women and girls aged between 15-49 have undergone some | |
| form of FGM in The Gambia, which ranks among the top 10 African countries where FGM | |
| is prevalent, according to the UN. | |
| The FGM rate drops to 46% among girls aged 14 and younger, according to Unicef. | |
| Only two cases have been prosecuted and one conviction secured since The | |
| Gambia's FGM ban in 2015, human | |
| rights group Amnesty International says. | |
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