Female genital mutilation is not a question of culture – HR activist

Published time: June 26, 2009 15:05
Edited time: November 15, 2009 03:57

The UN considers female circumcision torture. Human rights activists worldwide see it as a major women’s rights violation and a broader debate is needed, says Thomas Von Der Osten-Sacken from human rights NGO – WADI.

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bb 02.03.2012 15:54

RESPONSE TO "RESOLVE IT."  The people doing this have already been mutilated.   They are the older women doing this to their own girls.  This is a cultural mutilation enforced by the men, predominan tly Muslims, and women are TOLD they are elevated to a high status, while they are beaten, mutilated, subjugated and tortured in the name of a false god religion and its bloody practices.  It will never stop because they are taking over the world by force. 

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RESOLVE IT 14.11.2009 00:16

This should not be a problem to solve. Anyone involved in mutulation of a female's genitals should be sentenced to have their own genitals totally removed. This should stop this practice in it's tracks. Those involved will have a change of heart once their own genitals are renoved as a consequence.

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Kenneth Wilford 09.07.2009 12:40

It beggars belief to think this practice still go`s on. Makes you wonder what Century we are liveing in.?

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