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Somalia's New Constitution Bans Mutilating Girls

The new constitution has banned female genital mutilation or cutting, a move welcomed yet cautioned by activists who say that putting this law into action will require more than just a legal declaration.

  • Somalia:   New Constitution Bans Mutilating Girls

    UNIRIN, 13 August 2012

    Activists have welcomed a ban on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the new constitution of Somalia - a country where 96 percent of women undergo one of the more extreme… Read more »

Siegfried Modola/IRIN

In Somalia, 96 percent of women undergo one of the more extreme forms of the practice.

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