[Larry_OHF]

The world Health Organization is quoted in my Health Textbook as saying that Africa is the worst country in the world for human rights violations, specifically to females.


In 1997, a woman escaped her homeland to come live in the US seeking assylum because her cultural heritage was one that requires women and girls to be mutilated in various ways...and the process and its aftermath are serious health hazards...as well as the aforementioned violation to human rights.

Upon learning this, the US declared that funds would be withheld from any country practicing this crazy ritual, and it was written down to be never allowed in the US. The groups that do this say it is their cultural right to do as they please in their own land, so the WHO cannot enforce human rights to protect the poor women, most not even realizing that they are being mistreated.

For more information on this:

http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact241.html
http://www.who.int/docstore/frh-whd/FGM/
http://www.who.int/docstore/frh-whd/...ons/p-fgm1.htm
http://www.who.int/archives/inf-pr-1997/en/pr97-29.html
http://www.emro.who.int/rhrn/part5.htm