A young girl takes part in a reenaction of the ceremony Pokot tribal people perform before a girl is put through female genital mutilation (FGM). 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, ceremony, child, circumcision, culture, customs, cutting, female, fgm, fistula, genital, karamoja, mutilation, pokot, reenaction, rights, sebei, traditions, tribal, tribes, uganda, unfpa, womens