ICGI: Uganda and UN get genital mutilation half-right
Gary Burlingame
http://www.icgi.org/2009/07/uganda-and-un-get-genital-mutilation-half-
right/
Uganda and UN get genital mutilation half-right
July 4th, 2009 by ICGI
Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant
among pastoralist tribes in the country4s eastern region, the president
said in a statement Friday.
"The way God made it, there is no part of a human body that is useless,"
President Yoweri Museveni told a gathering in the eastern Karamoja
district.
We agree with President Museveni, and quickly add that this includes males
as well as females.
Last year, the United Nations passed a resolution that called female
genital mutilation a violation of the rights of women and said it
constituted "irreparable, irreversible abuse."
Of course, male circumcision is also "irreparable, irreversible abuse," a
fact that the UN has consistently and conveniently side-stepped.