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Map showing the % of women and girls aged 15–49 years (unless otherwise stated) who have undergone FGM/C according to the March 2020 Global Response report [1]. Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting (FGC), female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision, [2] is practiced in 30 countries in western, eastern, and north-eastern Africa, [3] in ...
[3] [4] [5] A March 2020 report by End FGM European Network, U.S. End FGM/C Network and Equality Now found that FGM was practiced in at least 92 countries across all continents, [3] while 51 of them had a law that specifically criminalised FGM. [1]: 11 FGM was illegal in 22 of the 28 most FGM-prevalent countries in Africa in September 2018. [6]
While genital mutilation is not a current issue in all Latin American countries, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and Mexico all have histories of female genital mutilation within indigenous groups. [39] The Embera and Nasa people in Colombia are the only groups in Latin America that are confirmed to still continue the practice. [40]
Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision [a]) is the cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva for non-medical reasons. FGM prevalence varies worldwide, but is majorly present in some countries of Africa, Asia and Middle East, and within their ...
[4] [5] Out of all countries where surveys were conducted, the highest prevalence of female genital mutilation among girls aged 0–14 was in the Gambia. (56 percent) [ 6 ] According to a 2022 UNICEF report, 75 percent of Gambian girls aged 15–19 had been subjected to the practice.
FGM in Africa, Iraqi Kurdistan and Yemen, as of 2015 (map of Africa). [77] Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital circumcision or cutting, is the traditional, non-medical practice of altering or injuring the female reproductive organs, often by removing all or parts of the external genitalia. [78]
A look inside Harmonia Healthcare, a Red Bank practice that treats pregnant women with conditions like hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), in Red Bank, NJ Thursday, July 18, 2024.
Female genital mutilation is followed by both short-term and long-term effects. Immediate signs of complications appear within a few hours and can last up to ten days after the procedure. Long-term problems were present more than ten days later and were associated with pregnancy affectations during labor and/or childbirth. [18]