Ethiopians Protest U.S. Mutilation Case

About 2,000 people demonstrated on Saturday to demand the release of an Ethiopian immigrant sentenced to 10 years in prison in the United States for mutilating the genitals of his 2-year-old daughter.

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Father Convicted in Genital Mutilation

An Ethiopian immigrant was convicted Wednesday of the genital mutilation of his 2-year-old daughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in what was believed to be the first such criminal case in the United States.

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It's an outrage that genital mutilation even happens at all. I don't understand any part of it. I applaud this doctor for her courage to do something to correct a terrible situation. And it's great that there is a cap on the price of the surgery.

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GRACE GICHUHI sobs quietly as she considers her future. ''They use a knife. Just a knife, no medicine,'' she says. ''They circumcise you and maybe you die or you survive.''

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Do you need a summary? Like the headline says: one teenager was fighting another when one of them locked onto the others equipment through his pants and bit the holy heck out of it like it was a hot dog and he wanted to beat Joey Chestnut and Kobayashi for the championship of do …

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A 19-year-old girl in Gothenburg has been awarded compensation after having been subjected to genital mutilation in Somalia as an 11-year-old.

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First ladies from seven west African countries gather here Monday for a conference on ways to end female circumcision, a widespread practice in the region despite efforts to end it.

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Finland is considering legalising the practice of male circumcision.

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"Danish police have arrested a couple of Sudanese origin suspected of taking their two young daughters to Sudan to be circumcised. "Female circumcision usually involves the partial removal of the woman's genitals

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Try to follow this logic of the U.S.

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A woman who had her 13-year-old daughter's genitalia pierced was acquitted of aggravated child abuse Thursday.

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Oumou Toure narrowly escaped deportation from Canada to her native Guinea because of the threat of genital mutilation that loomed over her 2-year-old daughter. The case illustrates difficulties women fleeing violence face when they seek asylum.

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Egypt has announced that it is imposing a complete ban on female circumcision, also known as genital mutilation. The announcement follows a public outcry after a young girl died during the operation.

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In her book, Ayaan Hirsi Ali says the following: "I left the world of faith, of genital cutting and forced marriage for the world of reason and sexual emancipation. After making this voyage I know that one of these two worlds is simply better than the other.

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When Hirsi Ali turned 5, a man came at the behest of her grandmother - though against the wishes of her more enlightened, absent father - and genitally mutilated her.

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The Newsvine Vagina (Vine-Gina) Monologues

Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" takes place all over the world as part of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls. Performances this year used taboo comedy and startling "vagina facts" to get their message across.

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Adama Bah's schoolmates were jubilant when she returned to 10th grade at Heritage High School in Manhattan in May 2005 after six weeks in a distant juvenile detention center.

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Taina Bien-Aime, executive director of Equality Now, an international human rights group, said female circumcision is most widely practiced in a 28-country swath of Africa.

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Man Accused Of Circumcising Daughter With Scissors An immigrant from Africa has gone on trial on charges alleging he circumcised his 2-year-old daughter with a pair of scissors to avoid bringing shame on his family.

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