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Genital Cutting Is Harmful- Lawmakers

Picture: Cross section of the high table

Thursday, October 01, 2009

The country’s parliamentarians alongside religious leaders and legal practitioners who took part in a daylong national workshop for National Assembly...

GAMCOTRAP Certifies 50 Community Based Facilitators

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Fifty Community Based Facilitators have been awarded certificates after completing an intensive training on the strategies, processes and issues...

Communities In URR Vows To Stop FGC

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

As many as 24 villages in the Upper River Region recently converged to celebrate what is called Darsilameh Mandinka public declaration for the...

Female Genital Mutilation Part of International Women’s Week

Friday, May 08, 2009

As part of the celebrations of the international women’s week the wassu kafo Gambia on Tuesday organised a conference on female genital mutilation at...

GAMCOTRAP Sensitise More Communities

Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices affecting the health of women and girls Gamcotrap on 23rd March held a day sensitization forum the...

GAMCOTRAP Sensitizes Rural communities on FGM, others

Picture: Dr Isatou Touray

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

In line with its objectives to eradicate Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and to empower women and girls across the country, Gambia Committee on...

Gamcotrap Celebrates Zero Tolerance on FGM

Monday, February 09, 2009

Female Genital Mutilation refers to any practice that involves the partial or total removal or alteration of the external female genital organs for...

GAMCOTRAP Conducts Sensitisation with Gambians in Catalunya, Spain

Picture: Dr Touray and others in Spain

Monday, December 01, 2008

The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices (GAMCOTRAP), in partnership with AMAM - a women’s rights organisation against female genital mutilation...

Girlhood: A Perilous Path

Friday, November 28, 2008

In the developing world today, foetal sex determination has made it possible for expecting mothers to know the sex of their unborn child. This...