UN: Practice Stop Female Genital Cutting

VIVAnews - The United Nations General Assembly called on countries around the world prohibit the practice of female genital mutilation. This practice is considered as being cruel and threatens about three million girls each year.

According to news agency Reuters, the resolution was passed in the session at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Thursday and is not binding. That is why the UN General Assembly called for 193 members to take all necessary measures, including legislation passed and imposed ban on female genital mutilation and protect all women and girls from violence.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 140 million girls and adult women experience genital mutilation practices. According to activists, the psychological impact experienced almost the same as that felt in the case of rape.
According to WHO, a practice cut some of the outer female genitals is common place in 28 African countries and others in the Middle East and Asia - including Yemen, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Indonesia. Practice is popularly called is believed circumcision for cultural reasons, reliji, and socially.
This practice is also found in developed countries, especially among immigrants. However, the female circumcision is often were found in Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Mali, and Guinea.
Issued by consensus, a resolution in the UN General Assembly also expressed concern over the "proof of the increasing incidence of female genital mutilation carried out by medical personnel in all areas of common action to implement it."
According to Ambassador of Burkina Faso to the United Nations, Der Kogda, the practice of female circumcision is still misinterpreted by the public in many places and taboo. "We have to break that habit so that it can be eradicated," said Kogda.
There is a judge that female circumcision is useful to avoid sex outside of marriage. There is also a state that is part of preparations for a girl to grow up and clean. However, the opposition claimed that the practice was causing bleeding, shock, cysts, and infertility, and psychological disorders.
Sources: http://dunia.news.viva.co.id/news/read/376675