FEMALE GENITAL CUTTING
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) define Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) as "any partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or any other injury of the female genital organs for non-medical reasons." FGM/C is done mostly in parts of northern and central Africa, in the southern Sahara, and in of the Middle East and Asia as well as among migrants from these areas. FGM is therefore a global concern. More than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut .The four types of FGM/C are: