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More than 125 million girls and women alive today have been cut in the 29 countries in Africa and Middle East where FGM is concentrated (1).
FGM is mostly carried out on young girls sometime between infancy and age 15.
FGM is a violation of the [[human rights ]] of girls and women.
My first observation is that these key facts are missing something very important. Violation of consent.
[We] In African, Islamic and Jewish communities, circumcision is mostly carried out by traditional circumcisers. In the U.S. it is often carried out by the doctors attending childbirths (OB/GYN), whose specialty has little or nothing to do with male genitalia.
[WHO] FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the [[human rights ]] of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. It is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children. The practice also violates a person's rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death
[We] MC has not been recognized internationally as a violation of [[human rights ]] of boys and girls, but the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe gave a first step in naming non-therapeutic circumcision of underage boys among procedures that violate the children's right to physical integrity. Circumcision reflects inequality between sexes and a form of violence and discrimination against boys. It is nearly always carried out on minors and should be recognized a violation of the rights of children. The practice also violates a person's right to health (externalizing an internal organ, often causing meatal stenosis and loss of erogenous tissue), the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (see the treatment received by the child in the above pictures) and the right to life when the procedure results in death (deaths after circumcisions are not unheard of, both in traditional procedures -such as South Africa every year-, ritual -such as Israel- or medical -as in the United States).
[WHO] Immediate complications [of FGM] can include severe pain, [[shock]], [[haemorrhage]] ([[bleeding]]), tetanus or sepsis (bacterial infection), [[urine]] retention, open sores in the genital region and injury to nearby genital tissue.