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EGYPT: Parliament criminalizes female circumcision

Although it was banned years ago, female genital mutilation remains widely practiced in Egypt. About 70% of Egyptian girls are believed to have undergone it. The promulgation of the new penalties came on the heels of the death of a 12-year-old girl in Upper Egypt while undergoing the procedure last summer.

70% of Egypt's 40 million women are genitally mutilated. How appalling.