Female Genitalia

Thousands Abandon Female Genital Mutilation in Africa

9 Feb 2012

A new U.N. report showed that Kenya topped the list as the country with the greatest reduction in female genital mutilation. According to a recent U.N.

Nigeria: Combating Female Genital Cutting

9 Feb 2012

[Daily Trust] On February 6 2012, the world marked the ninth annual International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). 'Female Genital Cutting (FGC) is the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons.

Uganda: We Either 'Kill' Culture or Preserve Life

7 Feb 2012

[Monitor] ELEVEN-year-old Cheyech Lima of Doo village in Nakapipirit District died on July 9, 2010, in the bush due to over bleeding-a common FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) complication. According to the "surgeon", one Cheptchai, he was not only cutting for the first time, but hurriedly for fear of the law. "My grand father used to be a 'surgeon'. So elders asked me to start because we needed ...