A 12-year-old shows scars she received when relatives beat her after she tried to escape from a marriage to a much older man. She's now in school at Kalas Girls Primary School, Amudat District, Karamoja, Uganda. Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been outlawed in Uganda since 2010, but aid workers and police say it's still being practiced by tribes in the northeast, including the Pokots, Sebei, Tepeth and Kadama.

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Keywords: abuse, adolescence, child, circumcision, culture, customs, cutting, female, fgm, fistula, genital, karamoja, mutilation, pokot, rights, scars, sebei, traditions, tribal, tribes, uganda, unfpa, womens