Leading women’s rights organizations have jointly filed a case at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice in Abuja, Nigeria, to challenge Mali’s failure to prohibit Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) by adopting a legal and policy framework that would criminalize the practice.

Currently, there is no legislation that addresses FGM, leaving women and girls without recourse or protection from this human rights violation.

Imoh Edet reports.