Pan African Parliament and Female Genital Mutilation

The Pan African Parliament opened on Monday and tomorrow the annual women’s conference will start until Friday. The conference will zoom in on challenges facing women on the African continent. Some of the areas that have been put on the spotlight by PAP to be discussed include female genital mutilation and how we get men on board in getting rid of some of these practices. For more on this and other related matters we are now joined on the line by…Dr Bernadette Lahae who is the Fourth Vice President of the Pan African Parliament Itumeleng Komanyane who is the Regional Programmes Manager at Sonke Gender Justice who are co-organisers of the conference Agnes Odhiambo who is a senior researcher in the women’s rights programme at the Humans Rights Watch