230 million women undergo female genital circumcisions Globally – UNICEF

More than 230 million women and girls in Africa have had female genital mutilation, according to a report from the United Nations.

In the past eight years, around 30 million people have had their private parts partly or completely removed, according to a report by UNICEF released on International Women’s Day.

UNICEF said that the number of women and girls experiencing female genital mutilation is going down, but they are worried that the efforts to stop this practice are not happening fast enough to keep up with the growing population.

The report said that the number of girls getting a certain harmful surgery is going down, but it needs to go down even faster.

Some people incorrectly think this practice controls women’s sexuality. It can make women bleed a lot and even die. Girls from babyhood to teenage years have to go through this procedure. In the long run, it can cause problems with peeing, periods, pain, sex, and having babies. It can also make you feel sad, have low confidence, and get stressed easily.

“We are noticing that more young girls are being forced to undergo this practice before they turn five years old, and it’s concerning. ” UNICEF’s Catherine Russell said that it makes it harder to help when the time to act is even shorter.

Around 144 million women and girls in Africa, 80 million in Asia, and 6 million in the Middle East have experienced female genital mutilation, according to the report. In Somalia, 99% of girls and women between 15 and 49 years old have had the practice of female circumcision.

In Burkina Faso, the number of women who have been circumcised decreased a lot in the last thirty years.

The report said that 4 out of 10 survivors of abuse live in countries with a lot of fighting and a lot of people. It also said that problems with politics make it hard to stop the abuse and help the victims.

The most girls and women who have been cut live in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Sudan during times of war, according to the report.

The report said that some countries are making progress, but it also warned that the world is not doing enough to stop the practice by 2030, as the UN wants.

The report said that in some countries, they need to make progress 10 times faster than ever before to reach their goal by 2030.

Nimco Ali, the leader of the Five Foundation, a charity in the U.K, said that the UNICEF estimates were very surprising and sad. She also said that we need more money quickly to stop female genital mutilation.

“We need to work hard over the next six years to stop the terrible abuse of girls’ human rights and protect the next generation from FGM,” said the activist, author, and survivor of female genital mutilation in a press release.