For instance, harmful traditional practices which occur in many of the countries.
Banda and the girls shared how harmful traditional practices created pressure to drop out of school and get pregnant.
"The alienation of those who are viewed as being cultural authorities can lead to the further entrenchment of those same harmful traditional practices," cautions Judi Aubel.
The sensitive nature of some issues – violence against children, for instance, or such harmful traditional practices as female genital mutilation – complicates data collection.
Men are the major beneficiaries of some of the most harmful traditional practices like female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriages.
We are a national division of the Inter African Committee IACC) on Harmful Traditional Practices – a regional umbrella body with divisions in 28 African countries.
A Heavy Toll on Women A 2010 United Nations report on harmful traditional practices described baad as "still pervasive" in rural areas.
Her ringing call to "end harmful traditional practices and unleash the power of young girls" came on at an event organised in the margins of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York on 18 April.
It has become a sort of umbrella term, which now encompasses a variety of previously unconnected or unrecognised forms of abuse, such as trafficking, harmful traditional practices or bullying (compare, for instance, the resolutions adopted in 2000 and 2007).
In some areas of Africa, deeply rooted 'tradition' demands that local girls undergo FGM, and sometimes other harmful traditional practices (beading, breast ironing etc), if they are to gain access to a husband and the adult world.
Through Agali's model, girls strengthen their leadership capacity, conduct participatory needs assessments, and identify the factors that negatively affect their well-being, including harmful traditional practices, social norms, and weak policy frameworks.
