Harmful Traditional Practices - IPPF
accusations of witchcraft levied at older women.2 • In many countries there are specific laws aiming to curtail these practices, in most instances they also contravene countries’ existing laws relating to physical and sexual violence. • Harmful traditional practices are a product of social norms which aim to uphold cultural ideas about gender
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