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
  • Most countries where female genital mutilation is common have laws against it.
    — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Nkuraiya founded the school for children who are at risk of female genital mutilation.
    — Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 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
  • This includes even female genital mutilation – which is practiced on daughters as a rite of passage.
    — Nurith Aizenman, NPR, 12 May 2024
  • 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
  • In the letter, Abbott likened the procedures to female genital mutilation, which is already against the law in Texas.
    — Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Your book speaks very movingly of your experience of female genital mutilation.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2021
  • 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 West African country could become the first in the world to overturn a prohibition on female genital mutilation.
    — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
  • Discussions for men also have focused on girls' rights, equality and the harmful effects of female genital mutilation.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In 2020 and 2021, bills relating to female genital mutilation were raised but did not pass out of committee.
    — Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Two men who say they were injured by the procedure as infants want Colorado’s law forbidding female genital mutilation to also prohibit male circumcision.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 10 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Halfway through college, Russell spent two months in Tanzania assisting a nonprofit that taught female genital mutilation survivors how to make clothes to support themselves.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Many of these girls have undergone the traumatic experience of female genital mutilation (FGM).
    — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The Templeton Prize winner and former first lady of Somalia is still working to train midwives and eliminate female genital mutilation.
    — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • For the third year in a row, Simenesh Comollo, a survivor of female genital mutilation, has appeared before lawmakers to testify in support of a bill that would ban the practice in the state of Connecticut.
    — Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2026

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