Let us focus on FGM war to beat 2022 deadline for ending the ‘cut’

Mention of 2022 immediately leads Kenyans to the forthcoming general election, the anxiety about it notwithstanding. But there is a more critical event than the polls.

On June 4, 2019, President Uhuru Kenyatta gave a firm guarantee and assurance to the largest global convention for gender equality, wellbeing of women and health rights that he would bring to an end the problematic and regressive female genital mutilation/cut (FGM) at the end of his term — in August next year.  WON Executive Director Njeri Rugene writes in Daily Nation. Read More…