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Female genital mutilation: Facts and figures

March 3, 2016

More than 140 million women worldwide have been forced to undergo female genital mutilation. It's a practice in which a woman's genitals, the clitoris and labia are cut off. It's a horrific tradition and many of the women suffer their whole life under what some societies have considered an essential social norm for more than 2,000 years.

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