FGM: What is it?

Name: FGM: What is it?
Uploaded: 2019-02-06T09:02:45.000Z
Duration: 1 min 56 s
Description: It's estimated that 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of FGM, according to the United Nations (UN).

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It's estimated one in 20 girls and women in the world have undergone some form of FGM, according to figures from the UN.

The BBC looks at the four different types of FGM as the UN calls for its complete eradication on International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.

World

6 February 2019