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Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision [a]) is the cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva for non-medical reasons. FGM prevalence varies worldwide, but is majorly present in some countries of Africa, Asia and Middle East, and within their ...
In Egypt's first trial for committing female genital mutilation, two men were acquitted in November 2014; the doctor was ordered to pay the girl's mother compensation. [91] In 2015 after an appeal the doctor was sentenced to more than two years in prison and the father was given a three-month suspended sentence. [ 92 ]
Female genital mutilation, also called female circumcision, involves removal of some or all of a female's genitalia. More severe – and far less common – forms involve complete removal of the genitals and sewing up of the vagina until only a very small hole remains for urine and menstrual blood vacate.
Egyptian officials have violated this father and husband’s human rights." Ali is a refugee from Somalia, where she was the victim of female genital mutilation in a Muslim community. Previously a ...
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is widespread in Egypt, with 87% of girls and women aged 15 to 49 years having undergone FGM in 2004–15, [50] though the practice is less common among the youth. [51] The practice is deeply ingrained in the culture and predates both Christianity and Islam.
[24] [8] In 1990 the IAC began referring to it as female genital mutilation, as did the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1991. [25] The WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA defined FGM in 1997 as "all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons". [8]
A t the age of 12, I experienced female genital mutilation (FGM). This is a generations-old practice in my community in rural western Kenya. It is believed to mark the transition from childhood to ...
The second-eldest of nine children, Saadawi was born on 22 October 1931 in the small village of Kafr Tahla, Egypt. [10] Saadawi was subjected to female genital mutilation [11] at the age of six, [12] though her father believed that both girls and boys should be educated. She had described her mother and father as being relatively liberal when ...