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Female Genital Mutilation: A Violent Cultural Tradition
By
Jo Anne Lyon
and
Andrea Summers
, Contributors
While the debate is lively at the Girls Summit, we wanted to take a moment to bring attention to it here in America because it deserves a global spotlight in order to find a solution to end this practice. However, the extreme challenge with ending FGM is that most of those who practice it don't believe they are doing any wrong.
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