17,000 girls in Spain, at risk of genital mutilation – Journal Page Seven

World / Rebeca
 Yamke

The result of African immigration in Spain, today genital mutilation
 female exists as diaspora. What in Africa extends along
  28 countries , more in Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone,
 Burkina Faso and Mali, “affects the world 140 million women “.
 Of these, 55,000 are in our country, according to the latest map Mutilation
 Women in Spain published by the Wassu-UAB Foundation and published every
 four years.

One of those 55,000 women affected by ablation is Senegalese
 Aminata, wipes the tears in the image above. El Mundo told his story in February, when it was celebrated
 World Day against female genital mutilation. He suffered from
 girl, could not remember how old I was when it happened and in Barcelona, ​​and 40,
 midwife Social Security warned that her vagina could
 rebuild.

In addition to those already suffered and live with the consequences,
 Spain is in 17,000 girls at risk that are practiced
 mutilation. They are daughters of immigrants in Spain up to 14 years and, according to
 report Wassu-UAB Foundation is “a 60% increase from
 2008 “.

Catalonia accounts for 36% of these young people, with more than 6,000
 girls, a 2,000 more than in 2008 . And the Spanish municipality
 more women from countries where genital mutilation is practiced
 Zaragoza is female, with 818 in risk of it.

Andalusia is the second Spanish province with the highest native population
 countries where female genital mutilation is practiced, but
 Madrid beats him in number of women and girls .
 Valencia, Aragon, the Canary Islands, the Basque Country and the Balearic Islands are the
 other regions with more than 10,000 people in this group of nationalities.

In order to reduce the chances of you have girls in Spain
 suffering an ablation, the government and regional administrations
 decided in January set the Joint Action Protocol
 Health against Female Genital Mutilation , which included a
 families demand: resign to subject their daughters to the practice
 when they are traveling to their countries and even to sign a “commitment
 preventive “before displacement and accept a later control.

In addition, this protocol specifies that interterritorial mutilation
 female genital is considered “as one more type of violence
 gender “.

From Health explained to this newspaper that this protocol is the
 “Instrument that can benefit all regions.”
 Also earlier this year the Basque Institute for Women, Emakunde initiated the
 formation process key professionals to prevent ablation in this region, where there are 800 girls under 14 at risk
 suffer. However, according to this institution, this protocol is still
 develop and will not be implemented until the “next October.”