Is the End in Sight for Female Genital Mutilation?
Young women in Africa now are less likely to undergo the traditional practice.
But the practice of female genital mutilation is gradually declining, according to a report issued this week by the United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF). Younger women are less likely to have undergone the procedure than women in previous generations, and they are less likely to support it for their daughters.
To find out more about female genital mutilation, National Geographic spoke with Efua Dorkenoo, advocacy director for Equality Now and a recipient of the Order of the British Empire for her campaign to stop the practice.
I was working as a midwife in the U.K. [and delivered] a woman who had the most radical form. There were various complications.
Yes.
Yes, but it introduced me to the subject in terms
