The Female Genital Mutilation Economy and the Rights of the Girl Child in Northeastern Uganda

Ochen, Eric Awich; Musinguzi, Laban Kashaija; Kalule, Esther Nanfuka; Ssemakula, Eugene Gerald; Rebecca, Kukundakwe; Opesen, Chris C.; Bukuluki, Paul

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“…Harmful traditional and cultural practices, such as forced or child marriage (Campbell et al, 2020; Glover et al, 2018), female genital mutilation (Kandala et al, 2018; Ochen et al, 2017) and witchcraft‐related abuses of children (Taylor et al, 2019), have remained a significant threat to child protection in many parts of the world. Sometimes, the connection between harmful traditional practice and child protection is contested (Boyden et al, 2013).…”

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Evaluating the impact of a community‐based livelihood intervention on child protection: A mixed method approach

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Kamara²,

Galukande

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Child & Family Social Work

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Globally, children face an increasing risk of harm from abuse, violence and neglect.Progress towards securing a safe environment for them is slow and uneven. There is a growing need to understand how innovative community-driven interventions could address sociocultural practices that harm children. In this paper, we evaluated the impact of the community-driven urban programme on livelihood, income fortification and socio-civic transformation intervention (UPLIFT) on child protection in Kampala, Uganda. We used a mixed-method evaluation approach, which incorporated the difference-in-difference analysis and Kernel propensity score matching to estimate the programme's impact, and for the analysis of our qualitative data, we used the thematic approach. There were 663 pre-intervention participants and 559 postintervention participants, aged between 13 and 17 years, in the study. Results showed improvements in various aspects of child protection; for example, there was strengthened community responsibility for child protection services and uptake of policy. However, we found undesirable impacts on situations presenting a serious risk of harm to children. We argue that protecting children against harm is a complex process, often rooted in the sociocultural and religious life of communities, and that child protection interventions must be deliberate about identifying and targeting ingrained sociocultural practices that sustain child abuse.

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Evaluating the impact of a community‐based livelihood intervention on child protection: A mixed method approach

Doh

Kamara²,

Galukande

et al. 2021

Child & Family Social Work

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“…As Farris (2017) points out, the combination of gender and immigration issues enables right-wing parties to reap a dual reward in terms of electoral gain: it secures the votes of women eager to push a feminist agenda as well as those of white citizens afraid of the potential repercussions of immigration on their daily life. Therefore, the “threatening immigration” frame, which promotes restrictive and punitive measures for immigrants, ensures the Republican party's electoral successes (Hout & Maggio). As Mayda et al (2016, p. 1) show, Republican votes increase when immigration is perceived as a major issue because of the rise in the number of immigrants, and they decrease “when the share of naturalized migrants in the voting population increases.” Thus, limiting immigration—and the number of voting citizen immigrants—is also a political strategy to ensure the Republican party's prosperity.…”

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From the War on Terror to the Moral Crusade Against Female Genital Mutilation: Anti-Muslim Racism and Femonationalism in the United States

Bader

2023

Violence Against Women

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This article investigates the recent flurry of state-level legislation regarding female genital mutilation (FGM), which occurred in the aftermath of the first federal criminal court case of FGM in 2017. Drawing on publicly available material, it shows how this court case, which involved a group of Muslims of Indian heritage, elicited a moral crusade against FGM, largely led by Republican lawmakers, and spurred a resurgence of anti-Muslim discourses, which first came to the fore after 9/11 to legitimate the “war on terror.” Although FGM is not an Islamic practice and is also carried out by non-Muslim groups, the author concludes that femonationalism and anti-Muslim racism are important analytical lens for understanding the recent history of legislative efforts to combat FGM in the U.S.

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The Female Genital Mutilation Economy and the Rights of the Girl Child in Northeastern Uganda

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Evaluating the impact of a community‐based livelihood intervention on child protection: A mixed method approach

Evaluating the impact of a community‐based livelihood intervention on child protection: A mixed method approach

From the War on Terror to the Moral Crusade Against Female Genital Mutilation: Anti-Muslim Racism and Femonationalism in the United States

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