Funded by UNFPA, A seminar organized entitled: “Customs and traditions between legitimate consuetudinary and scientific experience”

HUMAN ACCESS in Al-Mahra Governorate, through the Protection and Livelihood Support Project - Al-Ghaydah, funded by UNFPA, organized a seminar entitled: “Customs and traditions between legitimate custom and scientific experience” to coincide with the International Day of Zero Tolerance with Female Genital Mutilation (February 6).

The seminar was enriched with interventions by the female attendees from the community guides, health professionals and workers in the humanitarian field.

The seminar contained three working papers. The first paper included the discussion about customs and traditions between rejection and follow-up, and the fact that the custom is tight, and consuetudinary is a source of legislation, presented by the project coordinator, Saif Farhan. The second paper dealt with the phenomenon of female circumcision in Sharia and Islamic law, presented by Professor of Sharia in the Faculty of Education in Al-Mahra, Dr. Safwan Al-Ahmadi. While the third paper presented by Dr. Khadija Al-Fares, head of the obstetrics and gynecology department at Al-Ghaydah Hospital, in which she reviewed the reality of circumcision, its health damages and its psychological consequences.