A Bondo Society 'Sowei' (Female Genital Mutilation Initiator) is on the run for alleged murdering a 14 years old girl in Koidu City, Kono District, Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Sources close...
Award Winning Women and Girls Rights Advocate, Alimatu Y Dimonekene, has been awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King's New Year’s List. The list recongises outstanding...
The first prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of a woman engaged in the practice of female genital mutilation (or Sowei) has testified in court explaining how an initiate died shortly after she had...
Magistrate Momoh Lansana of Bonthe District has granted bail to Sixty years old Traditional FGM Leader, Sowo Sandy, who was arrested and charged with manslaughter following the death of a 21-year-old lady,...
For the first time in the history of Sierra Leone a Sowei ( Women engaged in the practice of Genital mutilation) is in court after the death of an initiate. 21-year-old Maseray Sei, a mother of two,...
A woman believed to be in her 60s has just been charged with manslaughter in southern Sierra Leone following the death of a 21-year-old a day after she’d undergone female circumcision. Activists say...
Sierra Leonean Women's rights activists living and working in Kenya has written a letter to President Julius Maada Bio for him to ban Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Female genital mutilation in Sierra...
The ministry of Gender and children’s affairs and child protection agencies in their efforts to stop the harmful traditional practices especially Bondo (FGM) on girls below eighteen years which have...
Following yet another tragic death in Sierra Leone as a result of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), 130 women’s rights organisations from across the country and around the world have signed an open letter...
Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Dr. Abass Chernor Bundu has made is categorically clear that he is not against the Bondo Society but share the concern of campaigners that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) be...
