How to Use female genital mutilation in a Sentence

female genital mutilation

noun

• First to note is that one of the motives for male circumcision was the same as for female genital mutilation from the get-go.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Mar. 2018
• In the letter, Abbott likened the procedures to female genital mutilation, which is already against the law in Texas.
  — Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2021
• Millions of girls and women have been subjected to the practice of female genital mutilation, and 32 million girls are still not in school.
  — Ved Nanda, The Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2020
• Many countries around the world have taken the step to outlaw female genital mutilation.
  — Alice Broster, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• Health workers and activists call it female genital mutilation and are working to end the practice.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• Nkuraiya founded the school for children who are at risk of female genital mutilation.
  — Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2020
• Moreover, Kenyatta has vowed to end the abhorrent practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2022, which will mark the end of his second and final term in office.
  — Fox News, 4 July 2019
• The measure adds medical care for transgender youth to a section of Idaho law already on the books that bans female genital mutilation.
  — Giselle Rhoden, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022
• The United States has toughened its ban on female genital mutilation, considered a form of child abuse and gender violence.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jan. 2021
• Most countries where female genital mutilation is common have laws against it.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• Knowing that female genital mutilation continues to happen around the world, Chanel is hoping to use her voice to save others from going through the same experience.
  — Lanae Brody, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022
• Eleven Kentucky senators introduced a bill last week that would make female genital mutilation, or FGM, a felony offense.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 14 Jan. 2020
• In Kenya the women’s caucus developed and aided the passage of a bill condemning female genital mutilation.
  — Kennedy Elliott, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
• From there, Miriam Kimani, 23, shared her story of growing up in rural Kenya, where many of the girls around her were dropping out school, marrying young, getting pregnant as teenagers, and, in some cases, facing female genital mutilation.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 26 Oct. 2022
• In 2015, Jaha Dukureh was recognized for her life-saving work, protecting young girls against female genital mutilation in Gambia, Africa.
  — Noel Cody, Essence, 23 Apr. 2020
• Currently, 40 states have laws that criminalize female genital mutilation, including Michigan, which passed its statute in the wake of the federal case.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2021
• Despite decades of British colonization in the past and growing inclusion in modern economies, the Maasai maintain the practices of pastoralism, child marriages and female genital mutilation.
  — Tom Odula, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• The women, meanwhile, were tackling even weightier subjects under a nearby acacia tree, including birth control, the role of women in the village, and female genital mutilation.
  — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2018
• The new rules include allowing non-Muslims to drink alcohol and scrapping public flogging as a punishment, as well as a ban on female genital mutilation, Reuters reported.
  — Fox News, 13 July 2020
• Edna Adan, a former foreign minister in Somaliland and a pioneer activist in the struggle to end female genital mutilation, sees this as an important sign.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• Women in the Kuria tribe, a deeply patriarchal community, also face customs like female genital mutilation (FGM) and polygamy.
  — Jay Parini, CNN, 7 Aug. 2021
• That can be anything from female genital mutilation, which is horrific, to female infanticide, where girl babies are not valued, to assault on grown women.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
• Egypt Egyptian lawmakers have approved tougher sentences for female genital mutilation, in an ongoing effort to end the practice.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2021
• Idaho’s bill, H.B. 675, is an addendum to an existing ban on female genital mutilation.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• In a move long pushed for by women’s rights campaigners, Sudan’s government outlawed female genital mutilation.
  — Fortune, 4 May 2020
• Your book speaks very movingly of your experience of female genital mutilation.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2021
• Currently, 27 states have laws that criminalize female genital mutilation, including Michigan, whose FGM law is stiffer than the federal statute, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, compared with five years under federal law.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2021
• Bogaletch Gebre nearly bled to death around age 12 when, like almost all Ethiopian girls of her generation and before, she was subjected to the excruciating ritual now known as female genital mutilation.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
• But escaping female genital mutilation is a valid reason for granting protection, according to social workers who assist the migrants.
  — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
• No matter the customs of a student’s native country, instructors emphasize that practices such as female genital mutilation are prohibited in this country.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024