More than 200 million girls and women mostly from Africa have undergone female genital mutilation according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2019, UNFPA estimated $95 is needed to protect a girl in one of the 30 countries where female circumcision is considered a tradition. Most donors today have sidestepped the issue because they think it’s too difficult and somehow not central to realizing gender equality. | DW Africa

New report: Despite being forbidden by national and international law, female genital mutilation and/or excision shows no sign of abating in Guinea: 97% of women and girls aged 15 to 49 years in Guinea have undergone female genital mutilation and/or excision. “Although female genital mutilation appears to be decreasing worldwide, this is not the case in Guinea, where this practice is widespread in every region and among every ethnic, religious and social group,” said UN High Commissioner for Hum