female circumcision
female genital cutting
female genital mutilation , FGM (Abkürzung)

Do you think female circumcision will always be with us?

Most of the women are treated for conditions related to female circumcision.

Q. When did you first become aware of female circumcision?

Most of these women who came to me, obviously, had undergone female circumcision.

She plans to use some of the money to help educate people in Africa to stop female circumcision.

In traditional society, too, the painful practice of female circumcision was widespread.

Today we in the West would do the same with "modern equivalents" like female circumcision.

All types of female circumcision have huge psychological and physical dangers.

Female circumcision was sometimes thought to get rid of the evil spirits.

To the Kikuyu, female circumcision is much more than a mere physical act.

Female circumcision is just beginning to get attention in Africa, and about 13 countries now punish the practice with jail terms.

Although many Americans may feel male and female circumcision are unrelated, the rest of the world sees the connection.

The practice of female circumcision is widespread within some African cultures and ethnic groups.

If the sight of this girl under female circumcision is so difficult to bear, how can she possibly stand the pain?

Despite the protests of the world's public, female circumcision is still practised.

These procedures are often referred to as female circumcision.

On extreme levels, sexuality may be denied through sexual abuse and female circumcision.

But then they would talk about female circumcision.

In recent years, Egyptian legislated to forbid the female circumcision.

Female circumcision, you see, is nothing like what we know as male circumcision.

The struggles of an African woman to come to terms with the consequences of female circumcision.

Women the world over should speak out against the treatment this woman has received from immigration officials and against female circumcision.

In 1996 female circumcision, whether part of a woman's culture or not, was outlawed in this country.

The explanatory notes mention many contemporary issues from terrorism to female circumcision.

Many support female genital cutting, even though they say otherwise externally.

These range from birth, marriage, female genital cutting, and the performance of family death rituals.

To outsiders, the act known as "female genital cutting" is often shocking.

The term female genital cutting is generally preferred among agencies working to end the practice.

She is known internationally for her efforts to abolish female genital cutting.

She underwent female genital cutting when she was seven years old.

The last legal female genital cutting occurs in the United States.

Though the new Government outlawed it, female genital cutting is still widely practiced.

Many international organizations have targeted female genital cutting as a practice that needs to be eradicated.

The radios provide access to programming on women's rights, health and controversial issues such as female genital cutting.

Female genital cutting there is widespread, and he said his seven sisters, who now live outside Somalia, were all subjected to it.

Despite her abhorrence of female genital cutting, for example, she said she does not try to stop it.

Female genital cutting continues in Guinea even though it is illegal and those convicted face life imprisonment.

There were reports that some Bedouin tribes had previously conducted female genital cutting.

Female genital cutting is illegal in both Kenya and Tanzania.

This book is considered a feminist work, though a controversial one, in part due to its depiction of female genital cutting.

A hypothetical, then: If a group said female genital cutting was part of its religion, would the city allow its practice?

"Moolaadé" is a powerful statement against the practice of female genital cutting.

It is sometimes referred to as female circumcision, or female genital cutting.

Female genital cutting was outlawed in the United States in 1996.

She is opposed by the villagers who believe in the necessity of female genital cutting, which they call "purification".

There are dichotomous differences of opinion among Sunni scholars in regards to female genital cutting.

In Guinea, for example, female genital cutting has been a crime since 1965, punishable by life in prison or death.

According to the United Nations, two million women undergo female genital cutting in Africa every year.

Much debate has ensued over the years regarding clitoridectomy and female genital cutting.

Male and female genital mutilation are part of the same issue.

Action must be taken against the continued practice of female genital mutilation.

As of 2007, there is no known law against female genital mutilation.

"In some countries, they kill people who even talk about female genital mutilation," she said.

Female genital mutilation has become an issue in political asylum cases here.

The book includes a frank discussion of female genital mutilation.

She champions the fight against the practice of female genital mutilation.

Religious freedom and female genital mutilation have no connection with one another.

Others, like a page on female genital mutilation, seemed inappropriate for an 8-year-old.

They screened a video of female genital mutilation taking place for the men to watch.

We debated such an issue in this House only last night, that of female genital mutilation.

In Djibouti, nearly every woman has had female genital mutilation.

She was very concerned that her young daughter would also have to endure female genital mutilation.

Female genital mutilation is also practiced by many of the ethnic groups.

They are one of several African ethnic groups that practices female genital mutilation.

There are, of course, limits to what we can do to prevent female genital mutilation in third countries.

The same issues are raised by female genital mutilation.

In Chad, 60 percent of the women underwent female genital mutilation.

It has also led the drive to have female genital mutilation recognized as a ground for political asylum.

What he forgets is that more than half of Africa's people do not practice female genital mutilation.

Maternal mortality is high, partly because of female genital mutilation.

Kenya has become the latest African country to make female genital mutilation illegal.

Female genital mutilation has been illegal since 1998, but the law is rarely enforced.

Nearly half of the women in Benin undergo female genital mutilation.

Every doctor at the conference agreed that there is no medical justification for female genital mutilation.