1. There she was raped and threatened with female circumcision.

2. For the first time, the World Health Organisation's annual assembly passed a resolution condemning female circumcision.

3. Due to health campaigns , female circumcision has been falling in some countries in the last decade .

4. But he may not carry out any form of female circumcision at the request of a patient or her parents.

5. Another new law Criminalizes female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation, making it punishable by up to three years in prison

6. Recent surveys also show that two-thirds of Egyptian girls aged 10-14 have been subjected to the traditional practice of female circumcision.

7. Anthropologists generally have not spoken out, for example, against the practice in many cultures of female circumcision, which critics call a mutilation of women.

8. Rooted in paternalistic culture and practiced for centuries, female circumcision in Uganda is thought to protect a girl's chastity by "reducing the urge for sex in women, " Mirundi said.