FEMALEGENITALMUTILATION

Female genital mutilation

Female genital mutilation, also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is defined by the World Health Organization as "all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons." FGM is practised as a cultural ritual by ethnic groups in 27 countries in sub-Saharan and Northeast Africa, and to a lesser extent in Asia, the Middle East and within immigrant communities elsewhere. It is typically carried out, with or without anaesthesia, by a traditional circumciser using a knife or razor. The age of the girls ...

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female genital mutilation

Noun

  1. injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. Includes a broad spectrum of mutilations done to genitals which are female, including including inflicting abrasions, burning (cauterizing or chemical), cutting (from partial slits to amputation), piercing (from poking to stitching) or stretching.
  2. The complete amputation or partial cutting of the external female genitalia.


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