{UN} Agencies target female mutilation (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Laura Trevelyan
BBC News, New York

A range of United Nations agencies are calling for the practice of female genital mutilation to be ended within the space of a generation.

An estimated three million girls a year are thought to be at risk from this practice, many of them in Africa.

The practice of cutting off the clitoris of a young girl - and often more - is deeply rooted in some cultures.

Ten UN agencies want a major reduction in the tradition by 2015.

The practice is seen in some countries as a way to ensure virginity and to make a woman marriageable.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7266174.stm

[msongs]

1. so in the name of equality they will target ritual mutilation of boy babies too, right? nt

[Thothmes]

3. Think its called circumcision

[hyphenate]

2. Excellent

I sure hope that will come to pass. It's a topic many people don't like to discuss. I hope that it does come out into the open, and is shown for the horror it is. The old ways, in this case, must die.