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Dr Didier Dellea's paper takes stock of the 92 millions young girls of ten years of age and over being victims of genital mutilations in Africa (1). Most of the time practiced between childhood and 15 years old girls, those mutilations - widespread in some countries - have grown in number in Europe, Australia, Canada and the United states, essentially among immigrants from Africa and South-East Asia (2).

«"Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world", said Nelson Mandela. To fight against female genital mutilations, it is essential to ensure that women and girls around the world access to education, to health, to sustainable livelihoods, to exercise their rights and to participation in political life, which will also benefit their families and their communities. This cannot be done efficiently and ethically if boys are not also included in the overall project or at least are not excluded, under penalty of sacrificing several generations of women before the emergence of a world more respectful and egalitarian.»

(1) World Health Organization (February 2013)   http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/index.html

(2) UNICEF  http://www.unicef.org/french/protection/index_genitalmutilation.html

Download "Female genital mutilations : what to know for fighting against them ?" July 2013 , par Dr Didier DELLEA in Carnets-de-Santé 

Read also: Stratégies culturelles de lutte contre les mutilations génitales féminines (in French)

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