41.   Activists at a U.N. crime conference are demanding countries adopt a broader definition of what constitutes violence against women, including female genital mutilation and sexual harassment.

42.   Activists say that admonition allows them to address issues like sexual harassment and female genital mutilation, a custom widespread in parts of Africa and the Middle East.

43.   Activists say that admonition allows them to get at issues like sexual harassment and female genital mutilation, a custom widespread in parts of Africa and the Middle East.

44.   Also known as female circumcision, female genital mutilation is performed on infants a few days old, female children and adolescents and even occasionally on adults.

45.   An influx of thousands of women from African countries where female genital mutilation is practiced has prompted the government to take an active approach to deal with it.

46.   Critics call it female genital mutilation, but it is a tradition in Egypt and many African countries.

47.   Elf Dorkenoo of Ghana, a panelist on female genital mutilation, called on governments and the United Nations to eliminate the practice worldwide.

48.   Female genital mutilation can range from cutting off the tip of the clitoris to removal of the entire outer sexual organs.

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

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