Female Genital Mutilation

Custom cutting and modification of the genitalia of female infants, girls, and adolescents has been a common place practice in some communities since antiquity. It endures today basically in the African continent and among small communities in the Middle East and Asia. The range of these genital procedures has been expressed as female circumcision, or more recently, female genital mutilation (FGM) as a general name describing several different traditional procedural cuttings that emphasizes the physical mutilation associated with the practice. It is estimated that an average of 100 million women have had FGM Carried out on the genitals and that between four and five million procedures are executed annually on female infants and girls, with the most severe types of FGM carried out in Somalia and Sudan. FGM is a threat to sexual joy of a woman; it demeans a woman and relegates her to a position of a male sexual-toy. All those who value the humanity of a woman must not allow to happen to their sisters or daughters. FGM is a form of slavery, whether you belong to what kind of religion, it is inhuman to carry out such a practice on a fellow human being.