Female Genital Mutilation - Jan Theuninck, 2014

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a brutal custom practised in several developing countries under the guise of religion and tradition

https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/female-genital-mutilation

• Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter or 
• cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
• The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women.
• Procedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, and later cysts, 
• infections, as well as complications in childbirth and increased risk of newborn deaths.
• More than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 30 countries in 
• Africa, the Middle East and Asia where FGM is concentrated (1).
• FGM is mostly carried out on young girls between infancy and age 15.
• FGM is a violation of the human rights of girls and women.
  
  
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