Uganda case study shows the law alone will not eradicate FGM by 2030 deadline

Actors perform a skit about female genital mutilation. PHOTO | DICTA ASIIMWE |

Until November 2014, Patricia and Anthony Alinyo and their two children were an ordinary family living in eastern Uganda, in the district of Kapchorwa, in a small grass-thatched house built on a two-acre piece of land.

Then the couple was arrested after Patricia, who was pregnant with twins at the time, and a group of six other women from the village got circumcised.