"Nigeria's youth turn to social media to report FGM: activists":
Armed with mobile phones, young people across Nigeria are turning to social media to discuss and report cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in a country where a quarter of girls and women have been cut. While press freedom in Nigeria is limited, social media is rising in popularity and has been used to draw the attention of local and national authorities to violence against women and girls, according to an anti-FGM charity.As discussed before with Jalali's report case against the Pakistani government, this is a similar situation where the digital divide is now being broken, where 3rd world countries such as Africa now even have access to smartphones therefore social media as a result to have a surveillance and reassurance, and security. It perhaps gives them more flexibility and ease to report an issue, as stated "Young people might not have access to traditional or print media, but they feel engaged on social media," by a 22-year-old Nwachukwu, a law student who also works for The Girl Generation, a U.K.-funded program to end FGM in 10 African countries. As a result, this digital divide being broken now gives people across the globe a more humane right and opportunity.
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