Publicación:

Análisis de la ablación genital practicada por la comunidad indígena Embera Chami en el municipio de Pueblo Rico Colombia.

Resumen

Female genital mutilation is a practice that contains an ancestral cultural character deeply rooted in the indigenous culture present in many parts of the world, especially in African countries. This practice consists of genital mutilation where the woman's genitals are severed with a razor blade with precarious hygienic-sanitary conditions, causing serious damage to women's health, such as bleeding, hemorrhaging, intense pain, infertility. It begins at a very early age of the woman, on other occasions it occurs during the moment of marriage, where on the wedding night, it is the husband who mutilates the clitoris, leaving an open wound to later proceed with penetration. Ablation has devastating physical, psychological and social consequences. Colombia is the only Latin American country where its indigenous communities admit that this practice is still present, but the great paradox lies in the fact that this ancestral practice, so deeply rooted among indigenous people, enjoys constitutional protection under special jurisdiction.