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The 6th of February marks the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton and European Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding released a joint statement condemning the practice.
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The parliament in Uganda passed a bill on Thursday banning female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female circumcision, a practice which mainly affects girls living in communities in parts of Africa and Asia.
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On July 16, an eight-year-old girl was raped in Phoenix, Arizona. As the details of the case unfolded, it became clear that this was not an isolated case of violence and sexual assault.
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The construction of a controversial clinic to offer surgery to victims of female genital mutilation is under way in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Fasso, West Africa and is expected to be completed by September this year, taking only six Months to construct.
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The Austrian government has funded a 27-minute filmed expose about female mutilation in North Africa called “Cutting Silence”. Some 120- million North African girls and women suffer severe pain- and health problems because of forced genital mutilation
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Four female journalists are in a state of shock on Monday after being attacked, forced to strip and march through a Sierra Leonean town by Bondo, a secret society supporting female genital mutilation, FGM. It occurred on ''zero tolerance to FGM- day."
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A special clinic in Stockholm offers help to victims of female genital mutilation.
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 A family from Guinea that fears its daughters will be forced into marriages and possibly subjected to genital mutilation is to be deported Sunday after losing a last-minute court challenge.
 Fifteen mutilated cats have been found in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Maple Ridge over the past year, and police and SPCA are asking for the public's help cracking the case.
Brave recovery of Bangladeshi woman whose fingers were cut off
 Forty-nine mutilated bodies have been found dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what appears to be the latest blow in an escalating war of intimidation among drug gangs.
Police in western Mexico try to identify the remains of 18 people found dismembered and dumped in two cars in Jalisco state.
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