[nasional_list] [ppiindia] UNICEF: Positive signs in struggle against female circumcision
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Last update - 00:06 07/02/2006
UNICEF: Positive signs in struggle against female circumcision
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent
NEW YORK - Three million girls in 28 countries, mostly in Africa, are being
circumcised every year, but in many countries a significant diminution in the
number of victims is recorded, according to a United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICF) report released on Monday.
The report estimates that 100 to 140 million girls and women have undergone
Female Genitalia Mutilation Cutting (FGMC).
The UNICEF report was compiled ahead of the Annual International Day of Zero
Tolerance for Female Genitalia Mutilation, to be marked for the fourth time
this year.
Until recently, experts estimated that two million girls were subjected to this
form of abuse globally. But UNICEF spokeswoman in New York Kate Donovan told
Haaretz on Monday that the updated figure of three million girls was not
necessarily the result of a rise in the number of FGMC cases but rather an
encouraging sign of more efficient data collection.
"Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and in Egypt and Sudan, the social movement is
unfolding to end FGMC," Donovan said.
According to Donovan "over the last six years, thousands of villages in west
Africa have joined together in public pleading ceremonies to abandon FGMC,
bringing greater hopes of ending the practice globally within a single
generation." However, she warns "there is still a long way to go towards ending
FGMC."
Donovan says that Africa is the continent where the practice is most prevalent,
but "thousands of girls in immigrant communities in Europe, North America, and
Australia" are also subjected to FGMC every year.
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