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How a religious ruling seems to have stopped FGM in the 1950s in Ahwaz, Iran

Nov 9, 2016

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Rayehe Mozafarian

in Archieve, Articles, Asia, Iran, Middle East

Two new studies shed more light on the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the Middle East. For the first time, a study explores whether FGM is practiced in Syria – and comes to the conclusion that no evidence of its existence can be found. Another study explores the history of FGM in the…