Key facts On Genital Mutilation, And Don't Forget To Read The Footnotes. The Devil Is In The Detail.

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Female Genital Mutilation Male Genital Mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. Male genital mutilation (MGM) in the procedure that intentionally alters the penis for non-medical reasons.
The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women. The procedure has no health benefits for boys and men, though groups such as the American Medical Association use marginal claims of avoiding rare health condition as justification for the procedure. Most other health watchdogs globally state there is no benefit.
Procedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, and later cysts, infections, as well as complications in childbirth and increased risk of newborn deaths. The procedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, infections, traumatic penile amputation as well as increased risk of newborn deaths. Research has linked MGM to increased risk of Sudden Infant Death.
More than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where FGM is concentrated More than 600 million boys and men and women alive today have been cut in 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and North America where MGM is prevalent. \a])
FGM is mostly carried out on young girls between infancy and age 15. MGM is mostly carried out on young boys between infancy and age 15.
FGM is a violation of the human rights of girls and women. MGM is a violation of the human rights of boys and men.

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see

  1. World Health Organization. Female genital mutilation, Key Facts http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/female-genital-mutilation
  2. The World Health Organisation DON'T have a page for Circumcision - See "Adam Jones, Effacing The Male"

\a]) World Health Organization (2008). Male Circumcision: Global Trends and Determinants of Prevalence, Safety, and Acceptability. World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-159616-9.

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