Opinion: Millions have been traumatized by female genital mutilation. The practice must end
Female genital mutilation may be traditional in some cultures but it violates girls' human rights. The practice must end.
When Jane was 12, she was taken by force by some older women in her village in Guinea to a room outside her home and held down while her genitals were cut. She couldn’t see the instruments they used; she simply felt searing pain.
Her mother was not there, and they had never discussed this procedure performed on young girls in her called (FGM). Jane, whose name
