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Activists See India as New Front in Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation

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Washington —  A U.N. report released Friday about the prevalence of female genital mutilation around the globe is drawing attention to the practice among the Dawoodi Bohra community, a Muslim minority sect based in India. India is not on the UNICEF list of 31 countries released Friday. But the extent of FGM in India, although … Read more

Global efforts intensify to end female genital mutilation by 2030

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The day Aya was mutilated remains vividly etched in her memory. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org Abducted from a playground in Egypt as a child, Aya (not her real name) was taken to a place she described as “scary.” The sense of danger she felt in her heart deeply … Read more