“By medicalising it, we will be endorsing this practice, this violation of a child’s body and a basic human right of an individual and I think that’s the worst thing we can possibly do,” Joy Phumaphi, WHO assistant director-general for family and community health, told the BBC. […]
FGM is practised in 28 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.
One hundred million women worldwide have undergone the procedure, which happens to three million girls under 10 every year.
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