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Article: Health Panel Urges Halt To Female Circumcision
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 13, 1993
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GENEVA The World Health Organization on Wednesday announced its
intention to put an end to female circumcision, an African custom
that has maimed an estimated 80 million women.
The UN health agency has long warned that genital mutilation
kills tens of thousands of women and condemns millions to a life of
agony. But the agency has never taken action at the international
level.
The mutilation ranges from cuts in the clitoris to the complete
removal of the labia and sewing up most of the vagina.
A resolution approved unanimously by WHO's 185-nation annual
assembly asked Director-General Hiroshi Nakajima to prepare a report
that would call for tougher action on female circumcision and on ...