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

52.   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.

53.   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.

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

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

56.   Last December, the Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court upheld a ban on female genital mutilation, stating that nothing in the Quran authorises it.

57.   Or, as critics call it, female genital mutilation.

58.   She said WHO condemned all female genital mutilation but some practices such as pin-pricking the clitoris could prove to be a grey area under the legislation.

59.   The cheering crowd held signs supporting a range of issues such as defense of abortion rights and protests of female circumcision, or female genital mutilation.

60.   The aunt who insisted that Fauziya would have to undergo female genital mutilation.