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According to the World Health Organization. FGM is carried out in 28 countries in the world. It involves the cutting and/or the removal of the clitoris and other vaginal tissue, often under unsanitary conditions. The World Health Organization says today, 94 percent of women in Egypt arrange for their daughters to undergo a “medicalized” form of FGM, 76 percent in Yemen, 65 percent in Mauritania, 48% percent in Côte d’Ivoire, and 46 percent in Kenya. WHO estimates that between 100 and 140 million girls and women worldwide have been subjected to female genital mutilation in one form or another. Read more at allenbwest/2014/06/entire-class-swedish-schoolgirls-victims-genital-mutilation/#iRPeRODhdgFDAQzr.99
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 22:33:17 +0000

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