In a message dated 5/1/2006 3:24:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
davidhatton@totalise.co.uk writes:
Er yes actually... great place, much better than Chicago
Egypt: Report on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) or Female Genital Cutting
(FGC)
Released by the Office of the Senior Coordinator for International Women's
Issues
Practice:
The most common forms of female genital mutilation (FGM) or female genital
cutting (FGC) still widely practiced throughout Egypt are Type I (commonly
referred to as clitoridectomy) and Type II (commonly referred to as excision).
These practices are widespread but are even more prevalent in rural than urban
areas. They are common among both Muslims and Coptic Christians. Type III
(commonly referred to as infibulation, but in Egypt is referred to as "Sudanese
circumcision") is found only among a few ethnic groups in the southern part of the
country.
Incidence:
In 2000, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded the
fourth in a series of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in Egypt.
This nationally representative survey of 15,648 ever-married women aged 15-49
found that the practice is nearly universal among women of reproductive age in
Egypt. Preliminary analysis of the 2000 findings show that 97 percent of women
surveyed have undergone one of these procedures, which represented no change
from the 1995 DHS findings. The most severe form, Type III, is rare.
Data from the 2000 DHS shows some progress in terms of percentage of
daughters (aged 11-19) of women surveyed who have undergone this procedure (78 percent
in 2000 versus 83 percent in 1995) and in the intention of women surveyed to
have their daughters undergo one of these procedures (31 percent in 2000
versus 38 percent in 1995).
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