Humanitarian Bodies
Journal: Cahiers d études africaines
Year: 2015

On 2006, a Nigerian woman was arrested in the northeast of the Italy and she was charged with the offense of “female genital mutilation” in compliance with Italian Law 7/2006 entitled “provisions concerning the prevention and prohibition of the practice of female genital mutilation”. On 2008 in Bari, in the south, a two-monthold Nigerian infant died following severe haemorrhaging caused by a circumcision performed at home by a compatriot. These two episodes, notwithstanding their difference in c