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FGM is child abuse,
says UN Population Fund chief
The head of the United Nations Population Fund has, for the
first time, described female genital mutilation as "child abuse".
Dr Babatunde Osotimehin told the BBC that the custom was a human
rights abuse and needed to end immediately.
More than 200 million women and girls around the world have
undergone the procedure, where parts of the female genitals are removed.
The UN estimates a further three million are at risk of being
mutilated.
Dr Osotimehin said: "There is absolutely no reason to cut
anybody, and it seemed to us that it is part of the gender imbalance that has
always existed in these communities which are based on patriarchy. I think it's
child abuse."
Media captionFemale Genital Mutilation is "child abuse
and gender based violence"
The organisation had previously referred to the practice as a
human rights violation, but has stopped short of calling it child abuse.
FGM is practiced mainly in parts of Africa, the Middle East and
Asia.
It involves the partial or total removal of the female external
genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
Some countries in Africa are working to change traditional
perceptions of FGM.
At the moment about one in five women in Kenya has been cut.
But the UN children's charity, Unicef, says Kenya could
eradicate the practice in the next 15 years.
However, deeply entrenched traditions in some communities in
this region, and across the world, make this a major challenge.
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