19.9m Nigerian women suffer genital mutilation – UNICEF

As Nigeria launches the National Response to Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation, UNICEF has disclosed that an estimated 1.9 million women in the country have undergone the female genital mutilation / cutting procedure.
In a statement issued by UNICEF in Abuja yesterday at a press conference on the launch, it said that FGM is an extremely harmful traditional practice documented in Nigeria and 28 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
According to UNICEF- Nigeria Country Representative, Ms Jean Gough, “no one of the myths surrounding this practice has any basis in truth, adding that the only truth is that on every level this is a harmful and brutal practice that is detrimental to the health and rights of women and girls.’’
The United Nations Fund for Population Activities, UNFPA Nigeria Representative, Mrs. Ratidzai Ndhlova, “FGM is an extreme form of violence against women and girls,” adding that it violates the reproductive rights and the bodily integrity.
“To end this harmful practice, we must understand not only where and how it is practiced, but also the social dynamics that perpetrate it,so we can use that knowledge to persuade practitioners to end the practice,” Ndhlova said.
FGM is prevalence in six states namely, Osun, Imo, Ekiti, Ebonyi, Lagos and Oyo with an average of six out of every ten women 15 to 49 years who has undergone it.

 

 

 

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