Female Genital Mutilation has a high incidence in Africa and the Middle East, where a mid-wife cuts off the external genitalia of young females.
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#1 Female Genital Mutilation
Female Genital Mutilation has a high incidence in Africa and the Middle East, where a mid-wife cuts off the external genitalia of young females.
#2 Hundreds Of Millions Of Young Girls
100 to 140 million girls have been subjected to this barbaric and cruel ritual.
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#3 Average Age Of 10
Girls range from infancy to 15 years of age when they are cut, where they are too young to protest and go against their parents, and most suffer in silence due to the shame it causes them.
#4 Ancient Egypt
This ritual began back in ancient Egypt with the Pharaohs.
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#5 First Victim
This is a picture of the mummified body of one of the first girls to be subjected to this cruelty.
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#6 Violation Of Human Rights
The procedure is a voilation of human rights and must be stopped.
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#7 United States
Surprisingly, 500,000 women in the United States have had this procedure done
