21.   It is not surprising that the Ivoirian government is loath to take on genital cutting, despite the existence of laws that could be used to stop it.

22.   Mokaya was working for an aid agency in Somalia when he learned from two co-workers of the more extensive form of genital cutting practiced among some people there.

23.   Mrs. Awa Nana, who strongly opposes genital cutting, had never heard of Miss Kassindja.

24.   Nearly all her students have undergone one form of genital cutting or another.

25.   Only in the last few years have African nations even begun measuring the prevalence of genital cutting as part of national health surveys or in other research.

26.   Ritual genital cutting can range from cutting the hood of the clitoris to removing the entire clitoris and the tissue surrounding the entrance to the vagina.

27.   She is only the second woman granted asylum in the United States because of genital cutting, which millions of African women undergo each year.

28.   She said she would also be a volunteer for Equality Now, a group that is campaigning against genital cutting.

29.   The Board of Immigration Appeals granted her petition for political asylum on the grounds that she feared being subjected to genital cutting if she returned to Ghana.

30.   The congressional push to outlaw genital cutting in the United States was led by a handful of senators and representatives.