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female genital mutilation

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female genital mutilation
n. Abbr. FGM
Female circumcision.


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When I told them it was to attend Equality Now's annual conference on female genital mutilation (FGM), the conversation invariably bumped up against a stopping point: once you know about FGM, there really is no way to conscionably go on without doing something to help.
In what is considered an important legal precedent, a Georgia man was found guilty of performing female genital mutilation on his two-year-old daughter.
While domestic violence against women makes no economic or territorial distinctions, other forms of gender-based violence reflect marginally accepted practices in specific cultures, including rape, female genital mutilation, and "honor" and dowry-related assaults and homicides.
 
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