FGM/C remains prevalent across Southeast Asia. The region should look to the African Union’s playbook on regional cooperation.
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A study finds female genital mutilation or cutting is a leading cause of death: a young woman or girl dies every 12 minutes.
Pakistan has no official indicators to measure female genital cutting and no laws against it. There are also rarely protests against it.
Why ‘stigmatising’ and ‘traumatising’ approaches to FGM safeguarding are in urgent need of a review.
In some West African communities, age and magico-religious beliefs have a huge role to play in a woman’s independence.
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