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Meanings of fgm in English
Russian
женское обрезание Portuguese
mutilação genital feminina Spanish
circuncisión femenina Catalan
mutilació genital femenina 
Controversial cultural ritual.
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Government organization in Athens, Greece.
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Examples for "female genital mutilation"
Examples for "female genital mutilation"
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The protocol includes especially harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation.
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Progress is being made in reducing child mortality and female genital mutilation.
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Stand with us and help end this inhumane act of female genital mutilation.
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Kenya has become the latest African country to make female genital mutilation illegal.
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Agnes was walking through the fields to end female genital mutilation.
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Worldwide, an estimated 200 million girls and women have been subjected to female genital cutting.
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In particular, immigrants might differ from their counterparts in the country of origin in terms of attitudes toward female genital cutting.
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However, public ceremonies celebrating the illegal season of female genital cutting have been allowed to take place unchallenged by the authorities in some areas.
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In Senegal, a holistic and nondirective education program called Tostan, founded in 1991, has empowered villagers to lead a movement against female genital cutting.
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Female genital cutting is defined as an intentional injury to the female genitalia without medical justification.
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What about those who are fleeing from danger, such as female circumcision?
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Their stance led to groundbreaking legislation in their country that criminalizes female circumcision.
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They took not an acre of Kikuyu land, started schools, denounced female circumcision.
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There is need to intensify efforts on the campaign against female circumcision in Nigeria.
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Aid workers say cultural traditions will be the biggest barrier to eradicating female circumcision.
Usage of fgm in English
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A steady demand for female genital mutilation (fgm) is being reported from among immigrant communities.
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She currently works for the department of health on the FGM-prevention programme.
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In these countries more than 80 percent of FGM cases involved infibulation.
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About 14 other countries in Africa have passed similar laws against FGM.
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She's only had a handful of potential FGM cases in six years.
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FGM is actually several different procedures, but this is the umbrella description.
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Attempts to outlaw FGM in the past have foundered on political interests.
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Inspire started off campaigning on issues such as FGM and forced marriage.
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Doctors are under orders to start recording cases of FGM by October.
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She said her proudest achievement is having saved 11 girls from FGM.
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Sudan has one of the highest rates of FGM in the world.
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She is a leading specialist nurse in FGM and a trained psychotherapist.
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But the mosque the Attars belong to deny any advocacy of FGM.
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FGM typically involves the partial or total removal of the external genitalia.
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There were 35 cases of FGM reported at Northampton General Hospital last year.
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FGM can cause a host of serious health problems including infections and infertility.
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