This year, we are trying to raise awareness among mothers and aunts, who are complicit in the ritual and whom we feel often don’t understand the repe… - Hadja Idrissa Bah

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This year, we are trying to raise awareness among mothers and aunts, who are complicit in the ritual and whom we feel often don’t understand the repercussions. Many didn’t have the opportunity to go to school or learn about their rights

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About Hadja Idrissa Bah

Hadja Idrissa Bah , also Hadja Idy (born 23 August 1999) is a child's rights and women's rights activist from Guinea , who was elected President of the Guinean Children's Parliament in 2016. She has advised President Emmanuel Macron on women's issues.

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Pen Names: Hadja Idy la fille à foulard briseuse de mariages
Alternative Names: Idrissa Bah, Hadja

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Children are always excited to go on vacation, but here, many parents take their daughters to stay with their grandmothers or aunts and tell them how fun it will be. Instead, they cut them or amputate them. I say “amputate” because that’s what it is. Some genital mutilation also takes place in the city, in Conakry. You see little girls dressed in red for the ceremony. Little girls are not protected during the holidays and that terrifies us

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