In Cameroon, the breast, one of the most conspicuous signs of a woman’s femininity, is a target for ritual mutilation. Breast ironing, a practice that involves flattening a young girl’s breasts with ...

Affecting one out of every four girls, the brutal practice of “breast ironing” is on the rise in the African country of Cameroon. The procedure — which involves the flattening of a young girl’s ...

Cameroon has a tradition of forcibly flattening young girls' breasts using a hot stone in the hopes of averting sexual advances and teen pregnancies. New government research shows that the tradition ...

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Worried that her daughters' budding breasts would expose them to the risk of sexual harassment and even rape, their mother Philomene Moungang started 'ironing' the girls' bosoms with a heated stone.

'Ironing' the breasts of pubescent girls to protect them from men's sexual advances, as carried out in parts of Africa, can have harmful physical and psychological consequences, research shows - and ...

"I did it to my two girls when they were eight years old. I would take the grinding stone, heat it in the fire and press it hard on the breasts," Moungang said. "They cried and said it was painful.

Breast ironing. There is no way to ease you into such a topic, so I’ll just throw it right out there: Breast. Ironing. The brutal Cameroonian practice — which we’ve written about before — is the focus ...

While attention is finally turning to FGM, campaigners warn that breast ironing, which involves placing hot objects on girls’ chests, is also happening in the UK. Channel 4 News speaks to one victim.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon - Worried that her daughters' budding breasts would expose them to the risk of sexual harassment and even rape, their mother Philomene Moungang started 'ironing' the girls' bosoms ...

The campaign hopes to spare girls physical and emotional pain A nationwide campaign is under way in Cameroon to discourage the widespread practice of "breast ironing". This involves pounding and ...