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WHO: FGM affects over 200 million women and girls across the world

World Day for Elimination of FGM

Source: Creatives Commons /stopfgmkurdistan.org

February 6th is World Day for Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting FGM/C. The World Health Organization estimates that female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) affects over 200 million women and girls across the world. A Kurdish woman talks about the torturous memory of FGM, and living with its consonances as an adult (interview is from archive).


FGM Kurdistan
Source: stopFGMinKurdistan.org

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