Saturday, December 13, 2014

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.


    Vagina Museum Austria
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