In August, Sudan pledged to ban female genital mutilation in that country.
According to a story carried by the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks,
At the end of a regional three-day symposium held last week in Khartoum, Health Minister Ahmed Osman Bilal expressed his government’s commitment to eradicate FGM at all levels, according to a summary of proceedings provided by UNICEF.
According to the Sudanese government, as many as 90 percent of women in its northern, largely-Muslim states are victims of female genital mutilation. Moreover, female genital mutilation in Sudan is the worst form of the practice involving the removal of most or all of the external genitalia and then the sewing of the vaginal opening — all done on young girls aged 7-11.
Source:
Government to ban female genital mutilation. UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, September 3, 2003.
Sudan: Genital mutilation rises. Agence-France Presse, August 24, 2003.
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