FGM | Mutilation of Female Genitalia Tata's Story

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Female genital cutting is an abuse of human, women’s and child rights - See more at: http://orchidproject.org/category/about-fgc/how-fgc-is-ending/#why-end-fgc
Show More Female genital cutting is an abuse of human, women’s and child rights - See more at: http://orchidproject.org/category/about-fgc/how-fgc-is-ending/#why-end-fgc

How can you help?
http://orchidproject.org/category/what-we-do/how-can-you-help/

WHY is this practiced?
The reasons usually given for cutting include: - beauty and cleanliness - male protection and approval - health, religion - morality -

Where does FGM FGC happen
Female genital cutting has been documented in 28 African countries and in countries in the Middle East such as Yemen, Oman, Kuwait, Brunei and areas of Iraq and Iran.

FGC is also known to take place parts of Asia, including Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. There is further anecdotal evidence for FGC taking place in a number of other countries where data has not yet been collected. In Africa there is limited evidence of FGC taking place in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
FGC has also been reported in Singapore, the Maldives and the Philippines, while a type of FGC known as ’introcision’ was reported among the Embera-Chami tribe in Colombia, although the practice was declared to be abandoned in a ceremony in 2011. This particular form of FGC has also been reported in communities in Peru, Eastern Mexico and Brazil. The same report also talks of FGC among aboriginal tribes in Australia, but this has since been refuted.
FGC is also practiced among diaspora communities in Western countries (including parts of Europe, the USA and Australia).


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