August 27, 2016
Outside Paris, a clinic aims to tackle an age-old practice
ST.-DENIS, France – Miriam clearly remembers the day she was cut, bundled by two village women into a bathroom at the age of 7, where a third performed the procedure. “It was very, very painful,” the young Malian woman says softly, as her two tiny children pinch her cheeks, crying for attention.
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Features
January 12, 2015
African church leaders worry about the ‘medicalization’ of female genital mutilation
NAIROBI, Kenya - International rights groups, churches and activists are escalating campaigns against female genital mutilation now that a new practice has emerged in which girls are checking into hospitals to have the procedure.
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International