Breast Flattening in Cameroon – A Violation of Women’s Rights
Hi all,
this week the principal aim of our work at ProMosaik e.V. is to show you the breast flattening, a horrifying violation of young girls’ rights in Cameroon and other countries in Africa.
This practice is justified by saying that the girls have to be protected from sexual violence, and from pregnancy at young age, but in reality this is just an excuse and at the same time a way to criminalise women.
An important research about this practice was realised by the US researcher Rebecca Tapscott in 2012. ProMosaik e.V. has translated this study into German and Italian and has already published it a couple of weeks ago on its website.
For further information see:
http://www.promosaik.com/capire-lo-stiramento-del-seno-di-rebecca-tapscott-tradotto-da-dr-phil-milena-rampoldi/
http://www.promosaik.com/die-studie-von-rebecca-tapscott-zum-brustglaetten-in-kamerun-uebersetzt-und-erweitert-von-dr-phil-milena-rampoldi/
With this additional video material we would like to focus on this subject again to show the importance of a social chance which has to come to prohibit and stop this painful practice in Cameroon and other African countries where it is still carried out on young girls who have breasts which could attire men’s looks and run the risk of being raped.
We need a social change, a radical change of the social conscience in Cameroon.
And we need a legal prohibition of this painful practice which physically and psychologically mutilates young girls.
Thanks for sharing these video materials with your friends.
And thanks for standing up and saying NO to breast flattening.
Dr. phil. Milena Rampoldi – ProMosaik e.V.
Source: borgenmagazine.com
BREAST IRONING DEMONSTRATION
Produced & directed by OGCEYOD Cameroon
Sandra! […] One hour ago Baby, one hour ago
that I sent her, where has she gone to? Just to buy me soap by the roadside and
[…] I’ve noticed that. She has become so rough. Is it because she has started
growing? I’ll make a hell(?) out of her. Is it because she has started
developing small breasts? […] It’s terrible. Sandra […]
that I sent her, where has she gone to? Just to buy me soap by the roadside and
[…] I’ve noticed that. She has become so rough. Is it because she has started
growing? I’ll make a hell(?) out of her. Is it because she has started
developing small breasts? […] It’s terrible. Sandra […]
Get me some wood, I’ll make the fire. Light
that fire. Now […] where is it? In the kitchen, let me get it.
that fire. Now […] where is it? In the kitchen, let me get it.
Has she come? Has she come already? Yes,
Sandra! Sandra! Here, she has come, come tell her to come! […] Where were you?
Long ago that I sent you to by soap by the roadside. What happened?
Sandra! Sandra! Here, she has come, come tell her to come! […] Where were you?
Long ago that I sent you to by soap by the roadside. What happened?
Come, come here. I’ll make hell(?) out of you.
Come closer here. Is it because you’ve grown big? Because small breasts are
starting coming out? I sent you long ago by the roadside. Come on, Baby come on
help me. Baby help me! (girl crying)
Come closer here. Is it because you’ve grown big? Because small breasts are
starting coming out? I sent you long ago by the roadside. Come on, Baby come on
help me. Baby help me! (girl crying)
You think you’re more powerful, you are
stronger […]
stronger […]
All that I dream for you, you’ll come to know
the importance, you’ll thank me in the future […]
the importance, you’ll thank me in the future […]
Let’s go now to the room…there you’ll put this
under the bed and then you take your hand like this, you hold your breast like
this, you pull it and you and […] under the bed, you pull the other one and
[…] under the bed. Have you understood? […] and leave it under, have you
understood?
under the bed and then you take your hand like this, you hold your breast like
this, you pull it and you and […] under the bed, you pull the other one and
[…] under the bed. Have you understood? […] and leave it under, have you
understood?
-Yes
-Good…
I will take this stone and lift up the mattress
and you take the stone and hide it there, it is your present you’re hiding,
have you heard? Hold it! Now hide it! Good, now! You take your breast, you take
this one and draw it under, take this and draw.
and you take the stone and hide it there, it is your present you’re hiding,
have you heard? Hold it! Now hide it! Good, now! You take your breast, you take
this one and draw it under, take this and draw.
I am the […] acting the mother’s role. The
concept here is of using the stone on the child, since the child has developed
breasts and provokes boys of feeling that she is already a mature girl, we use
this stone in order to make the breast go away, so that the child remains as
small as she is. or to discourage boys to run after her.
concept here is of using the stone on the child, since the child has developed
breasts and provokes boys of feeling that she is already a mature girl, we use
this stone in order to make the breast go away, so that the child remains as
small as she is. or to discourage boys to run after her.
(man’s voice) What we have here is a grinding
stone as you see, it has the flat part and the stone that they use to grind
ingredients that they use to cook. It is the same stone that has the flat, the
bottom part of it, one side of the stone is flat, that they use in ironing the
breast of girls who are growing up, who have developed breasts. As you see we
have the bigger stone which is flat, the smaller one that they use to grind the
ingredients, so they call this a grinding stone.
stone as you see, it has the flat part and the stone that they use to grind
ingredients that they use to cook. It is the same stone that has the flat, the
bottom part of it, one side of the stone is flat, that they use in ironing the
breast of girls who are growing up, who have developed breasts. As you see we
have the bigger stone which is flat, the smaller one that they use to grind the
ingredients, so they call this a grinding stone.
These are two species of things, this is wood,
the other one is a mortar, the long one, and the stick is a mortar stick. This
is a traditional thing used in peeling kuku(?) yams, peeling yams, you make it
possible for people to swallow, like in our own culture the […] will like to
use this. We pound the kuku yams to make it become like fufu that we use in
swallow. Then we also use it in things like er…spice, we grind also pepper
inside, if we don’t have this machine, in those days that our parents did not
have this moulinette. We used it in grinding pepper, we used it in grinding
[…], we used in grinding […] beans, we used in grinding […] From there
you prepare the African dish out of it.
the other one is a mortar, the long one, and the stick is a mortar stick. This
is a traditional thing used in peeling kuku(?) yams, peeling yams, you make it
possible for people to swallow, like in our own culture the […] will like to
use this. We pound the kuku yams to make it become like fufu that we use in
swallow. Then we also use it in things like er…spice, we grind also pepper
inside, if we don’t have this machine, in those days that our parents did not
have this moulinette. We used it in grinding pepper, we used it in grinding
[…], we used in grinding […] beans, we used in grinding […] From there
you prepare the African dish out of it.
Finally it serves a role as a machine or as a
tool used in grinding things.
tool used in grinding things.
