Despite international efforts … Female genital mutilation has not decreased in some Arab countries

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The phenomenon of FGM / C in the Arab countries has been a major crisis in recent decades, before the Organization for Human Rights and Human Rights did not go to court. uses to fight against inherited habits of the past in most Arab countries.

According to human rights and civilians, the phenomenon has decreased relatively in most Arab countries, but it is still widely practiced in some villages and remote areas of Arab countries.

According to official studies, revealed by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics in Egypt, and studies of "June 2017" of the magazine "Population – Research and Studies", 90% of women aged 18 to 64 years have been circumcised, this ratio is about 62 in the age group of 18 to 19 years old and 75 in the age group of 20 to 24 years old.

In February, Dr. Amr Hbadan, rapporteur of the National Population Council in Egypt, took decision No. 23 of 2019 to create a committee to evaluate the master plan of the national strategy to combat bad mutilation female.

In accordance with the decision to establish the committee, the committee undertakes a number of tasks, including an evaluation of the implementation plan for the national strategy against female circumcision from 2016 to 2018, and a study to measure the number of women circumcised. impact of the implementation plan in the targeted villages.

Women and misconceptions

Dina Hussein, a member of the National Council of Women in Egypt, said that the National Commission against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage is working to address the phenomenon with the participation of the National Council of Women and the National Council of Women. motherhood and childhood.

"The phenomenon has not decreased much, but the committee is working directly with families and talking with mothers, and the awareness of the risks resulting from these practices is wrong."

She added that the Committee was using all available means to reach and raise awareness through the communication and dissemination sites of medical and religious awareness, or through badociations in remote areas.

According to Mai al-Rifai, an Egyptian student from Egypt, it is still thought that female circumcision is synonymous with chastity and protection from the badual drives created by all human beings, not just the girl, but the lone girl. pays the price and the real protection that any family can offer. This is the proper training and ethics, and the definition of the nature of his body, and answer his questions without shame.

She added in special remarks to "Sputnik" on Thursday that circumcision has several degrees vary from one province to another, and that they affect the whole negatively about the girl and a large proportion of psychological and physical and badual relationships after marriage, but the small percentage that does not leave the negative impact It is often performed by a medical specialist, the first degree of circumcision and does not carry painful memories .

Al-Rifa & # 39; i think its percentage has dropped a lot after being universally criminalized and that the number of doctors checked has increased, but it still exists.

Tunisia and Morocco

According to a large number of women, Sputnik continued its activities in Morocco and Tunisia, without any evidence of FGM / C in both countries, some confirmed that it was not in their country and that it had completely disappeared. For years. That this has never happened in Lebanon and that his hearing is strange in Lebanon.

According to a UNICEF report on the International Day of FGM 2017, more than 130 million women in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East have been circumcised.

The report pointed out that this is not limited to women in Africa, with the number of women living with or from female bad mutilation increasing from 168,000 in 1997 to 513,000 in 2017 in the United States. In Europe, it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of women have been circumcised and thousands of girls. His future exhibition.

Global statistics indicate that this phenomenon is spreading in some countries, including Somalia: although the country's constitution prohibits female bad mutilation, girls aged 4 to 11 are subject to the operation, while a large number of Djiboutian families continue to circumcise their daughters out of fear. To end up with what she calls a "stigma".

In Sudan, the 10-year plan, endorsed by the Sudanese government in partnership with civil society organizations and international institutions, has failed to eradicate female bad mutilation by 2018. However, and international indicators indicate that this phenomenon is still widespread. .

Despite numerous international attempts, the phenomenon of female bad mutilation in Mauritania, Iraq and Yemen spreads in varying proportions, as it does in other countries.