Female genital mutilation is on the rise in Africa: disturbing new trends are driving up the numbers
To eliminate female genital mutilation by 2030, progress would need to be 27 times faster. Understanding shifting trends ...
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Africa: Female Genital Mutilation Is On the Rise in Africa - Disturbing New Trends Are Driving Up the Numbers
Analysis - Thirteen-year-old Salamatu Jalloh had her whole future to look forward to. But in January 2023, her lifeless body was found wrapped in a pink and blue shroud on an earthen floor in a ...
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Disturbing new trends driving up female genital mutilation numbers
The types of cutting vary. In its most severe form, infibulation, the cut edges of the labia are sewn together to achieve a smoothness considered to be beautiful. The vagina must be reopened for ...
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Dr. Daffeh Presents Evidence to Lawmakers Showing FGM/C Is Harmful
Gambian gynecologist Dr. Babanding Daffeh last Wednesday presented evidence to lawmakers in Banjul showing Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is harmful.Dr. Daffeh who works at Kanifing General ...
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Female Genital Cutting: Confronting Cultural Challenges and Health Complications Across the Lifespan
leaving a small opening for the flow of urine and menses (infibulation, also known as the Pharaonic form); Type IV: includes other forms of nontherapeutic genital alteration such as pricking ...
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Violence against Women
The extreme form, infibulation, involves the removal of the clitoris and both labia and the sewing together of the vulva, leaving only a small opening to allow the passage of urine and the ...
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First Period_1, Carolina, Kuznetsov 1 (Necas, Skjei), 1:35 (pp). 2, N.Y. Islanders, MacLean 1 (Lee, Romanov), 8:20. Second Period_None. Third Period_3, Carolina ...