As the founder and CEO of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, a maternal health charity based in Nigeria, I have seen with my own eyes the harm caused by this archaic practice.
This paper appraises the public health burden of mortality in India caused by the practice of dowry and examines the association of some demographic and socio-economic factors with dowry deaths and dowry-related suicides.
Controversy over drilling for shale gas - or fracking - has increased since two small earthquakes near Blackpool last year were found to have been caused by the practice.
How much humiliation and ill will caused by the practice counterbalances the value of a life preserved by the confiscation of an illegal gun?
Conservationists have predicted that hundreds of millions more acres of trees are at risk in the next two decades if current trends continue, with WWF campaigning for stronger protection zones and programmes to incentivise countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions caused by the practice.
Halsall, whose section in Little Stitches interlocks the monologues of 14-year-old Safa, who is subjected to cutting, and a doctor later confronted with her case, said she was keen for the piece to explore the long-term psychological damage caused by the practice, rather than the physical trauma alone.
Even more silting, the researchers point out, was caused by the practice of using the harbor as a huge waste dump.
Although there's debate over the pain caused by the practice, we do know that the threat of the whip is what spurs the animals to perform beyond their physical means.
UNFPA, through the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Program on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, also works closely with communities in many countries to raise awareness of the harms caused by the practice and to support its abandonment.
