American Girls also Subject to Female Circumcision

The practice is illegal in the U.S., reports The New York Daily News.

Female genital cutting seems to have found its way into Muslim and African immigrant families in the United States too, besides being common in their native areas of Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

According to 2000 Census data that was gathered by the African Women's Health Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital, an estimated 228,000 women either have undergone genital cutting or are at risk of it.

African States Call for UN Ban on Female Circumcision
A two-day conference has been convened by lawmakers from 27 African countries in Dakar to push for a UN ban on female genital mutilation as a breach of human rights.

The practice is illegal in the U.S., reports The New York Daily News.

As per WHO, which defines it as a process that injures or alters a female's genital organs for no medical purpose, around 140 million women and children around the globe have been affected by circumcision.

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Female Circumcision: Men Can Stop It!
A day before the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation, experts and workers on the ground said Friday that men had a key role to play in the fight against female circumcision in Africa.

Uganda Government Bans Female Circumcision
Uganda's parliament has unanimously voted to outlaw female genital mutilation, imposing a 10-year penalty on anyone who conducts the procedure and life in prison for those who physically