Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, a 24-year-old woman from Djibouti, remembers the day when ... The woman was there to carry out a brutal, unnecessary and - since 1995 in the Horn of Africa country - illegal ...

I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down,” said Hawa’a Mohamed Kamil, a peer educator in Djibouti, who was ...

Some 230 million girls in more than 90 countries – predominantly in Africa and Asia – have undergone female genital ...

Female genital mutilation is internationally recognized as a human rights violation, and involves altering or injuring the ...