The webinar has these specific goals:
- To review and discuss the impact of Covid-19 on women’s rights and the impact on the ability to exercise their SRH rights access to SRHR services during the pandemic.
- To reflect on ICPD commitments versus actions, accountability to promises, and what unique opportunities were presented by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- To cross-examine the role that men and boys can play in contribution to the AU Saleema campaign to end FGM.
And it will cover these topics:
- Emerging trends and promising practices on FGM across the world
- Medicalisation
- Cross border FGM practice
- FGM practice in the diaspora
- Action and Accountability in relation to ICPD commitments, barrier and opportunities to women and Girls ability to exercise their sexual reproductive health and rights
- The role of religious leaders in ending FGM
- Engaging men and boys in ending FGM as contribution to the AU Saleema campaign.
Panellists will come from UNFPA, MenEngage Africa Alliance, AU Saleema Campaign to End FGM and the Kenya Anti-FGM Board.
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