Half of girls and women slice live in just three countries as Unicef statistics reveal shocking global scale of barbaric ritualThe huge global scale of female genital mutilation has been revealed in disturbing recent statistics,which show at least 200 million girls and women alive nowadays have undergone ritual cutting, half of them living in just three countries.
The latest worldwide figures, and compiled by Unicef,include nearly 70 million more girls and women than estimated in 2014 because of a raft of recent data collected in Indonesia, one of the countries where FGM is most prevalent despite the practice being banned since 2006. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com