1 There she was raped and threatened with female circumcision.

2 Prophet promoted female circumcision, which keeps women pious. Female circumcision removes the very sensitive part of the sex organ, eliminating their sexual pleasure.

3 Rooted in paternalistic culture and practiced for centuries, female circumcision in Uganda is thought to protect a girl's chastity by "reducing the urge for sex in women, " Mirundi said.

4 They even wage war against female circumcision, a practice current in 36 countries, which has been prevalent since the time of the Pharaohs.

5 It's female genital mutilation — sometimes called female circumcision — and it is prevalent across a broad swath of Africa and chunks of Asia as well.

6 But he may not carry out any form of female circumcision at the request of a patient or her parents.

7 For the first time, the World Health Organisation's annual assembly passed a resolution condemning female circumcision.

8 Recent surveys also show that two-thirds of Egyptian girls aged 10-14 have been subjected to the traditional practice of female circumcision.

9 As a case of the bizarre effects of competition between scholars, take some recent exchanges on female circumcision.

10 One of 'Akef's examples of America's "corrupt values" is the attempt to stop female circumcision in Africa.

11 Governments and local leaders must promote other ways to earn an income to successfully outlaw female circumcision, said U.N. Population Fund spokesman Abubakar Dungus.

12 "Poverty is quite a big factor and directly intrinsically linked to the economic interest [in female circumcision]," Odongo said.

13 When the activist heard that Museveni wants to outlaw female circumcision, it brought back memories of her own experience of being "stitched like a curtain, " she said.

14 Masturbation is still forbidden today in certain religions and cultures, and even punished or prevented through castration and female circumcision in some areas of the world.

15 Other award recipients included Kakenya Ntaiya, a young Kenyan woman, who negotiated with her father and agreed to undergo female circumcision, if he allowed her to go to school.

16 Ms. Martin says the plight of rape victims is especially dire in Darfur because roughly nine out of ten Sudanese women undergo an extreme form of female circumcision.