Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

[janterry]

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2021/02/06/default-calendar/international-day-of-zero-tolerance-for-female-genital-mutilation

Somalia is the leading country in FGM with 98% of women between the ages of 15 and 49 years undergoing the practice. Guinea, Djibouti, and Egypt also have more than 90% of their women between the same ages going for circumcision. However, Egypt has the highest number of women who have undergone FGM with a total of 27.2 million women followed by Ethiopia (23.8 million), Nigeria (19.9 million), and Sudan (12.1 million). Gambia is the leading country with the likelihood of a girl being circumcised because her mother was circumcised with 72% of the girls at risk of FGM. In these countries, the majority of the girls were cut before their fifth birthday by a traditional practitioner.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/a-questionable-tradition-female-genital-mutilation-cutting-by-country.html

[spooky3]

1. This article misuses "circumcision" to apply to this procedure.

https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/03/male-circumcision-not-comparable-female-genital-mutilation

[riversedge]

2. I am so glad they have good folks fighting this horrible issue