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… - Hadja Idrissa Bah

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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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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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Alternative Names: Idrissa Bah, Hadja
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The rights of Guinean children are in an alarming situation because they are neglected, and every day we participate in the violation of their rights, despite the efforts made by Guinean child rights advocates, ratified conventions, and adopted laws

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Our struggle must become everyone's: parents, neighborhood leaders, judges, imams... We are not fighting for money or fame, but because we have experienced this violence. Women deserve to have a pure and complete body, not to be deprived of their rights

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