Custom of Cutting
Tulip Mazumdar travels to parts of Africa to investigate attitudes towards female genital mutilation, and efforts to end it. 200 million women and girls alive today have been cut
More than 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone female genital mutilation, or cutting. It is where parts or all of a girl's genitals are damaged or removed. There are no medical benefits to FGM, and people who undergo the practice can face problems in later pregnancies, infections and even death due to blood loss. FGM is recognised internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. The head of the UNFPA recently described it as child abuse. The BBC's Global Health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar has travelled to East and West Africa to investigate efforts to end the practice and ask why this extremely harmful tradition, is proving so difficult to stamp out.
(Picture: Women in Narekuni © Krisztina Satori)
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