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Friday, 7 February 2014 REVEALED! Malawi Sex Camp Where Underaged Girls Are Taught To Have Sex. Findings by CNN reveal that girls as young as 10 years old in Malawi are being sent to sex camps to be initiated. The girls are taken to the camps where they are taught to have sex and expected to lose their virginity. The ‘campers’ are usually tricked by their families into attending these camps and they are told that they must either have sex or get a skin disease. The horrifying practice is not new – it is a time-honoured ritual passed through generations and the girls are sent by their families to make sure they are accepted into their communities as adults. When she was aged 10 Grace was sent to an initiation camp which took place not far from her home in Golden Village, where Grace lives with her grandmother. During her week-long stay she said she was taught her about respecting her elders and doing household chores, but also how to have sex by the women that led the camp who are known as anamkungwi, or ‘key leaders’. She told a group of journalists visiting Malawi with the United Nations Foundation that the women demonstrated sexual positions and encouraged girls to do ‘sexual cleansing,’ also called kusasa fumbi, which meant they should get rid of their inexperience with sex through practice. Not all initiation ceremonies in Malawi encourage girls to have sex, as programs and local cultures vary throughoutthe diverse country, which is home to several ethnic groups and languages. Pockets exist throughout the country, especially in the south, that teach sexually explicit content to their youth. Initiations that encourage premarital sex are practiced among various ethnic groups, including the Yao and Lomwe, which are based in the south, according to Malawi Human Rights Commission,which is charged with investigating rights violations. The commission also reported that girls as young as six have been sent to initiation camps, where they're taught how to have sex. It condemned the sexual curriculum for young girls, saying it impinges "on a number of rights of the girl child such as the right to education, the right to health, and the right to personal liberty and dignity." Human rights groups and researchers have also found instances when a man, nicknamed a hyena or fisi, has sexual intercourse with newly initiated girls as part of the rite of passage. Men enter the girls' room, one woman told a focus group which was held for teens and adults by the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers to examine perspectives on initiation rites. "They say they want to see whether the girls have really grown up by having sex with them," she was quoted as saying, In Malawi, over 10% of the population between the ages of 15 and 49 have HIV/AIDS, according to national data. "There's no benefit to the sex education," said Mkandawire. "This is harmful to the girls. This is one of the factors fueling child marriage in Malawi. Why teach girls this when they're nine or 10 years old?" Malawi ranks 10th for the highest rate of child marriages in the world, with half of its children married before the age of 18,according to the World Health Organization. The country also suffers one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates, according to UNICEF. And 35% of all pregnancies in Malawi come from teenage mothers. The younger the girls, the more they are at risk for pregnancy-related problems such as fistulas -- a condition that results in leaking urine and feces -- bleeding and other complications. culled This is really pathetic. We must all rise up to put an end to sexual abuse of children. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
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vijest.hr Autor: J.T./CNN U MALAVIJU Djeca i dalje prolaze spolni 'obred zrelosti' Foto: Reuters Reuters / Reuters Odbor za ljudska prava u Malaviju izvijestio je da se na jugu zemlje i dalje redovito odvijaju tzv. 'obredi zrelosti' u inicijacijskim kampovima u kojima se djevojčice, ponekad već u dobi od šest godina, uči seksualnim praksama CNN tako donosi priču o djevojčici Grace koja tvrdi da su je u dobi od deset godina poslali u kamp te da nije znala što je čeka. U početku se radovala jer je mislila da se radi o ljetnom kampu, no radilo se zapravo o učenju seksualnih praksi. Govorili su joj da mora ići u krevet s muškarcem i riješiti se 'dječje prašine' jer bi se, u suprotnom, mogla razboljeti. 'Ako djeca ne prođu tu inicijacijsku ceremoniju, neće biti prihvaćena u zajednici', tvrdi Jean Mweba iz Fonda UN-a za stanovništvo. U kampove se šalje i dječake i djevojčice (doduše, u odvojene) i tamo se djecu uči lokalnim vjerovanjima o seksualnosti i odrasloj dobi. Skupine za ljudska prava istaknule su slučajeve u kampovima gdje muškarci, koji nose nadimak 'hijene' ili 'lava', ulaze u sobe djevojčica da bi s njima imali spolni odnos. No mnogi od njih ne koriste zaštitu te se djevojčice tako zaraze HIV-om. Prema nacionalnoj statistici, oko 10 posto stanovništva između 15. i 49. godine zaraženo je HIV-om. Kulturalne prakse razlikuju se od regije do regije, no spolna inicijacija je i dalje na snazi u južnim dijelovima države. Malavi je 10. država na svijetu po učestalosti dječjih brakova, a polovina djece u državi stupi u brak do svoje 18 godine, stoji u ocjeni Svjetske zdravstvene organizacije. Oko 35 posto svih trudnoća odnosi se na tinejdžersko doba, a zemlja ima i jednu od najviših stopa smrtnosti u trudnoći, tvrdi UNICEF. Grace, koja danas ima 15 godina, jedna je od rijetkih koja je bila voljna javno progovoriti o fenomenu inicijacijskih kampova. U kampu, nedaleko od njene kuće, učili su je kako obavljati kućanske poslove, kako poštivati starije te o spolnom odnosu. Imitirala je seksualne poze koje su joj pokazivala starije žene, a nije bilo govora o trudnoći, zaštiti ili o spolno prenosivim bolestima. O spolnom odnosu govori se kao o obredu 'seksualnog pročišćenja', a odbijanje je rijetko slijedom velikog pritiska koji se vrši na djevojčice. Grace je bila jedna od rijetkih koja se nije podvrgnula obredu jer je, kako tvrdi, naučila nešto o rizicima preko lokalne mreže koja nastoji spriječiti dječje brakove i maloljetničke trudnoće. Iz Ministarstva zdravstva Malavija poručili su da su svjesni da valja modificirati određene kulturalne prakse da bi se zadovoljilo moderne zdravstvene standarde te da su izradili program prema kojima djecu valja što dulje zadržati u školi i dati im pristup zdravstvenoj skrbi. Posljednjih je godina u Malaviju zaista i primijećeno smanjenje broja maloljetničkih trudnoća i seksualno prenosivih bolesti. No tradicionalna kultura po regijama i dalje je od kontrolom lokalnih vlasti. Stoga, skupine za prava djeca odlaze direktno u inicijacijske kampove i nastoje objasniti opasnosti te prakse i uvjeriti ih da izbace 'spolno obrazovanje'. vijest.hr PODUZETNICI IZGUBILI VJERU: 'Čeka nas bankrot ili pakao mučne stagnacije' TRAGEDIJA Sedam padobranaca poginulo na Uskrs STROGA PRAVILA Platio kaznu jer je dao ženi da vozi