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04-02-2015, 01:21 PM
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Female Genital Mutilation

6th February is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.

Over 140 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of FGM

If current trends continue, about 86 million additional girls, worldwide, will be subjected to the practice by 2030.

FGM is mostly carried out on young girls sometime between infancy and age 15.

FGM causes severe bleedings and health issues, including cysts, infections, infertility, as well as complications in childbirth, increased risk of newborn deaths.

FGM is a violation of the human rights of girls and women.
http://www.un.org/en/events/femalegenitalmutilationday/

In this day and age? This barbaric practise must be stopped.
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04-02-2015, 01:59 PM
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Re: Female Genital Mutilation

This is just the result of ignorance. Stamp out ignorance in these countries and these atrocities wouldn't be carried out.
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04-02-2015, 02:18 PM
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Re: Female Genital Mutilation

Absolutely disgusting and un-necessary. A practice that doesn't even have a place in the dark ages. Anyone practicing this type of mutilation these days, need long jail time. An abomination.
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04-02-2015, 02:28 PM
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But how come when it's done to boys nobody bats an eyelid?

The NHS pays for it too.
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04-02-2015, 02:32 PM
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Re: Female Genital Mutilation

Hate the thought of GM, anyone practising it should receive a lengthy jail term.
Do we turn a blind eye to it, I wonder.
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04-02-2015, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by jodie ->
But how come when it's done to boys nobody bats an eyelid?

The NHS pays for it too.
While I agree I don't think it has the life long affect FGM has which is why we don't see so many protests about it.

FGM is all cultural so education is the way to stop it and we are not doing enough in this country as it is carried out here everyday.
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04-02-2015, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by jodie ->
But how come when it's done to boys nobody bats an eyelid?

The NHS pays for it too.
One could be considered a matter of hygiene the other is patently a matter of male dominated religious fanaticism and outrageous mutilation.
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04-02-2015, 04:20 PM
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Is it done to boys??. Do not confuse circumcision with genital mutilation.
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04-02-2015, 04:40 PM
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Some of it of course practised in this poor benighted country - how refreshing to experience the new and exciting customs of a section of our illustrious new guests...
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04-02-2015, 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Older git ->
Is it done to boys??. Do not confuse circumcision with genital mutilation.
I think it is both when done for purely religious reasons when the boy in question is too young to refuse or is aware why its happening. It is a barbaric sexual assault regardless of sex.
 
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