Africa: Three Million Girls At FGM Risk

8 February 2013

MORE than 3 million girls are likely to undergo Female Genital Mutilation annually in Africa, Grace Uwizeye Programme Officer in charge of FGM at Equality Now has said.

Uwizeye said in 28 countries where FGM is practised, about 92 million women have gone through the rite. She was speaking in Tasaru Rescue centre in Narok yesterday during a ceremony to mark the International Day of Intolerance to FGM.

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