Category: Female Genital Mutilation

Reflection on Female Genital Mutilation: Opinion Essay Picture yourself as a girl or young woman, tied up to stop you from resisting, as respected adults wound your body with a sharp instrument. This is an act of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The removal of a females potential for promiscuity is one given reason for this…

Female Genital Mutilation as an Example of Human Rights Violation in India: An Essay Culture must not be accorded the status of a metanorm which trumps rights, – Philip Alston, The Best Interests Principle: Towards a Reconciliation of Culture and Human Rights. The legal approach towards cultural practice in the name of preserving cultural pluralism…