The foreign-affairs series investigates how almost 3,000 Canadians came to be sterilised, often without their knowledge or parental consent. Between 1928 and 1972 Alberta had a policy to eliminate "deviance and deficiency". Emily Buchanan travels to the province to meet a victim of that programme whose fallopian tubes were removed when she was placed in a mental institution by her mother. The woman's successful seven-year battle for compensation is now inspiring hundreds of others to follow suit. Writer Donu Kogbara looks into a campaign aiming to abolish the Ugandan Sabiny tribe's female circumcision rite, a practice shrouded in superstition.