Girls sit in the yard at Kalas Girls Primary School, Amudat District, Karamoja, Uganda. They each escaped home after their families tried to force them to undergo FGM or to enter into an early marriage. 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.

---

Size: 5300px × 3533px
Photo credit: © SOPA Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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