Agnes Pareyio

'''Agnes Pareyio (born 24 June 1956) is a Maasai Kenyan women's rights activist, politician, founder, and director of the Tasaru Ntomonok Rescue Center for Girls, an organization that campaigns against female genital cutting. Pareyio was named United Nations in Kenya Person of the Year in 2005, for her work towards gender equality and women's empowerment. Quotes “When we come together our voices are heard, today all of us in this room play a role in ending FGM in our communities." **https://x.com/UNFPAKen/status/1192343904571531264?mx=2** "I promised myself, on the day my vagina was mutilated, that I would never let another girl be mutilated." "When women stand up and defend themselves, it works." https://www.onebillionrising.org/27-many-also-sign-revolution-agnes-pareyio/** some things must change now if the Maasai people are to succeed in the future the age-old practice of female circumcision is one of the traditions that have kept the tribe mired in deep poverty and social inequality In Narok district, or Maasailand, we have a very high dropout of girls from school They drop out of school because their parents marry them off. After female circumcision, the girl is married off Kenyan Activist Makes Headway in Effort to End Female Genital Mutilation Among Massai Women - 2004-09-15,October 29, 2009,by Voanews being ready for marriage has always been more important for a young Maasai girl than staying in school. And to the girl and her family, being fit for marriage has traditionally meant only one thing - undergoing a brutal form of circumcision in which every part of the female genital is cut away, without anesthesia All the clitoris go, the outer part of it and the inner part of it go And then an old mom comes with her two dirty fingers to make sure there is nothing. It's only the bone that is left. What they use to wash the wound is your urine Kenyan Activist Makes Headway in Effort to End Female Genital Mutilation Among Massai Women - 2004-09-15,October 29, 2009,by Voanews External links Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:Activists against female genital mutilation Category:Violence against women in Kenya Category:People from Narok County