Colombia becomes first Latin American nation to ban female genital mutilation

Infants and young girls subjected to FGM suffer immediate complications including hemorrhaging, infection, fever, and death; long-term consequences include reproductive and sexual health complications throughout life.

In a unanimous act of legislative conscience, Colombia has become the first nation in Latin America to criminalize female genital mutilation — a practice long hidden within some communities of the Emberá Indigenous people, where silence and tradition have conspired to keep it invisible. The law arrives carried by the voices of survivors like Carla Quiñonez, who endured the procedure as an infant and has spent years transforming personal wound into public witness. Yet a law alone cannot reach into the spaces where fear, language, and distrust of institutions have made healthcare itself a source

Colombia becomes first Latin American nation to ban female genital mutilation

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