Fredrik Malm, alla kurders vän.
12:04:32 Ons 31/12/08
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Bifogad URL: Female circumcision prevalent in Kurd [FL;LI]
Female circumcision is widespread in Iraq's Kurdistan region, despite it having what is considered a more progressive society, women's advocacy groups say.
A study this year indicates more than 60 percent of women in Kurdish areas of northern Iraq have been circumcised, and in at least one territory 95 percent of women have undergone the ritual, The Washington Post reported Monday.
The practice -- involving the removal of external female genitalia -- and the Kurdish Parliament's refusal to ban it, point up the plight of w...
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