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Tue 03 Mar 2005Genital mutilation imposed on 6,000 girls daily
Human rightsAs women around the globe join together today to mark International Women's Day, 6,000 girls in Africa and the Middle East will be put through one of the greatest human rights violations in the world.
Female genital mutilation (FGM), which involves the cutting away of part, or all, of the female genitalia, has been performed on an estimated 135 million girls and women. Some two million girls a year are at risk of mutilation - about 6,000 per day.
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