Image Gallery: Female genital mutilation

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Samburu FGM ceremony, Laikipia plateau, Kenya, 2004
Anatomy of the clitoris, showing the clitoral glans, clitoral crura, corpora cavernosa, vestibular bulbs, and vaginal and urethral openings
FGM awareness session run by the African Union Mission to Somalia at the Walalah Biylooley refugee camp, Mogadishu, 2014
Materials used to teach communities in Burkina Faso about FGM
Map showing the % of women and girls aged 15–49 years (unless otherwise stated) who have undergone FGM/C according to the March 2020 Global Response report. Grey countries' data are not covered.
Montage 1, Image 1: Percentage of 15–49 group who have undergone FGM in 29 countries for which figures were available in 2016
Montage 1, Image 2: Percentage of 15–49 group who have undergone FGM in 29 countries for which figures were available in 2016
Fuambai Ahmadu chose to undergo clitoridectomy as an adult.
Keur Simbara, Senegal, abandoned FGM in 1998 after a three-year program by Tostan.
Isaac Baker Brown "set to work to remove the clitoris whenever he had the opportunity of doing so".
Hulda Stumpf (bottom left) was murdered in Kikuyu in 1930 after opposing FGM.
Edna Adan Ismail raised the health consequences of FGM in 1977.
Female genital mutilation laws by country: Specific criminal provision or national law prohibiting FGM General criminal provision that might be used to prosecute FGM Partial or subnational FGM criminalisation, or unclear legal status FGM not criminalised No data
Obioma Nnaemeka criticized the renaming of female circumcision to female genital mutilation.
Martha Nussbaum: a key moral and legal issue with FGM is that it is mostly conducted on children using physical force.

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