81.   Female genital mutilation, typically performed on girls before puberty, ranges from cutting the tip of the clitoris to removing all external genitals.

82.   Female genital mutilation, or FGM, has since become a powerful symbol of the inhuman traditional practices which hinder the development of women.

83.   Female circumcision, or genital mutilation, in its simplest form entails cutting away the tip of the clitoris.

84.   Female genital mutilation includes a number of procedures involving cutting or removal of external female genitalia.

85.   Foley said Smith was sent to Khartoum to convey U.S. concerns about reports that the country engaged in religious persecution, slavery, salve trade and female genital mutilation.

86.   Female circumcision, widespread in Egypt and other parts of Africa, is condemned by critics as genital mutilation.

87.   He said female genital mutilation contravened several international agreements to which Australia was a party, such as the United Nations Declaration on Violence Against Women.

88.   Health Minister Ismail Sallam, has since banned female genital mutilation in hospitals and clinics.

89.   Labor Minister Juan Aparicio also backed the prohibition, comparing the wearing of the hijab to genital mutilation of women in some Muslim countries.

90.   Keely and Perlmutter said it might be a different matter if a child feared specific persecution in another country, such as female genital mutilation.