— Mail and Guardian reports: “Uganda to outlaw female circumcision”
— “Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country’s eastern region, the president said in a statement on Friday.”
— “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'”