Getting it off their chests: Women in Cameroon speak out against breast ironing

“My aunt and my mother pounded my chest every day when I was barely 10 years old. I cried endlessly.” Brenda Mahop, a first year Law student at the University of Yaounde II-Soa recalls the distressing memory of undergoing ‘breast ironing’ to IPS news. According to Gender Empowerment and Development, a Cameroon-based organisation dedicated to [...]