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Female Circumcision
Nguồn: Đỗ Mạnh Hà sưu tầm
Người gửi: Đỗ Mạnh Hà (trang riêng)
Ngày gửi: 16h:41' 09-12-2008
Dung lượng: 4.3 MB
Số lượt tải: 7
Mô tả:
Người gửi: Đỗ Mạnh Hà (trang riêng)
Ngày gửi: 16h:41' 09-12-2008
Dung lượng: 4.3 MB
Số lượt tải: 7
Mô tả:
Female Circumcision
Voice 1
Hello. I'm Elizabeth Lickiss.Voice 2
And I'm Peter Laverock. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.Voice 1
Today's Spotlight programme is about the issue of female circumcision. It is a subject that affects many women across the world.Voice 2
Female circumcision means the cutting away of female sexual organs. People perform this custom for many different reasons. Some communities do it because they believe that their religion demands it. Other communities believe that it will keep a girl a virgin until she marries. For some communities circumcision is part of a tradition. It marks the time when a girl becoming a grown woman.Voice 1
Many girls experience circumcision across the world. But many countries have made the custom illegal. This is because it is extremely painful and dangerous. Many young girls have lost their lives because of circumcision. They bleed to death, or their wounds become infected.Voice 2
Many women suffer long-term health problems because of circumcision. For example, circumcised women often have difficulties having babies. Circumcision damages the skin around a woman's sexual organs. The damaged skin can prevent a baby from being born. So what is it like to be circumcised? Marina Santee tells the stories of two very different girls. They are from different countries. One is rich and the other is poor. But both of these girls say that the day they were circumcised was the worst day of their lives. Here is Marina with Endeyewho's story.Voice 3
My name is Endieyewho Asmare. I come from Assosa in Ethiopia. At the age of thirteen I was married. My mother was sick and could not take care of me. My family believed that if I married, my husband would look after me. One night, shortly after we married, my husband came to me. He had six other men with him. They came into my room and closed the door. There was no escape. My husband told me that he was going to circumcise me. I told him I was already circumcised as a small child. But my husband would not listen. Some men held me down while the other men cut at me. It was very painful. I cried out but they would not stop. Then they placed something between my legs. It was a cloth to stop the bleeding. My husband then poured two containers of water over me and left the room. I was alone. I was in terrible pain. The bleeding did not stop. I got weaker and weaker. Seven days later I was still bleeding. My husband's mother came to see me. She was shocked when she looked at me. My wound had not healed. There were flies all over me. She ran to my family for help. My mother came and took me home. My father took me to the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association. My father wanted to bring a criminal charge against my husband. The Association sent me to hospital. I spent a month there having treatment. It took me many more months to recover physically.'Voice 2
Endieyewho is just one young woman who will continue to live with the bad memory of her circumcision. The World Health Organisation estimates that around one hundred and forty million [140,000,000] women in the world have experienced circumcision. Around three million [3,000,000] girls will be added to this number every year. Princess Euphrasia Etta Ojong lives in the South West Province of Cameroon. She was circumcised as a young girl. She now uses her position to try and stop the custom. Marina Santee tells Princess Ojong's story.Voice 3
'In my tribe circumcision is a "rite of passage". It is a custom that shows you have passed from being a girl to a woman. Only girls who have been circumcised can perform the special Nkim dance. The Nkim dancers are an important group of women in the community. The tribe treats them with great honour. My parents wanted this honour for me. So they sent me to an old woman of the village with some other girls. This woman circumcised me. It was extremely painful. All the girls bled a lot. After the ceremony we were locked in a house to recover. In the house the village women gave us a lot of food to eat. Large women are considered to be more beautiful. These women also showed us how to do the Nkim dance. Not all the girls who go into the house come out again. Some girls die from the bleeding after the ceremony. But I survived. However I have been left with terrible injuries. Today I feel bad about what happened to me. I do not feel like a complete woman. The day I was circumcised I was robbed. I do not want any other girl to go through what I have gone through. Circumcision is an old custom. It is not needed in today's world.'Voice 1
Princess Ojong continues to fight against this custom. She would like to see it stopped. But she knows that it will take a long time to change people's minds. Circumcision is still a deeply important custom to many people in her tribe. Princess Ojong believes that through education she can help to change people's ideas. But she knows that it is going to be a difficult struggle.Voice 2
The WHO Director for Africa is Doctor Ebrahim Samba. He states that every year around two million girls [2,000,000] in Africa alone are subject to the custom. The result is often pain, shock, and loss of blood. Kidney and other infections are also common. Many girls will die because they have been circumcised.Voice 1
Circumcision causes great damage to a woman's body. The damage cannot ever be fixed. Doctor Samba describes the custom as a, "violation of human rights". He would like to see female circumcision stopped. The World Health Organisation continues to pressure its member states to make the custom illegal.Voice 1
Many countries have made female circumcision illegal. But as Princess Ojong and Endieyewho Asmare know, it is a difficult law to enforce. Circumcision is often carried out in private. The local circumcisers are often respected women in the community. One such woman is Mama Anna. She says that circumcision is a valuable custom. Mama Anna believes that parents should be pleased to circumcise their daughters. She claims that it keeps the girls pure. It protects them from becoming victims of their sexual urges.Voice 2
It is going to be difficult to persuade people like Mama Anna that circumcision is wrong. The World Health Organisation and people like Princess Ojong have a long battle to fight. But it is a fight that they want to win. This year, like every year, many young girls across the world will suffer circumcision. As Princess Ojong says,Voice 3
'Surely there is another way.'Voice 2
The writer of today's programme was Elizabeth Lickiss. The voices you heard were from the United Kingdom. Computer users can hear our programmes, read our scripts and see our wordbook on our website at www.radio.english.net. This programme is called 'Female Circumcision'. Thank you for joining us in today's Spotlight programme. Goodbye.
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