Extreme Genital Mutilation on Retreat in Somaliland
- Publisher:
- Agence France-Presse
- Publication Date:
- 19 February 2014
- Tags:
- Somalia, Health and Medicine, Women and Gender
The centuries old tradition of cutting young girls is on the decline in northern Somalia, though it continues to have some of the highest rates of women who have undergone female genital mutilation in the world.
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