Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls - 0 views
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diamond03 on 06 Oct 14This is so strange and taboo.
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fundamental violation of women’s and girls’ rights
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50% or highe
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female circumcisio
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harmful physical, psychological and human rights consequences has led to the use of the term “female genital mutilation
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women who have undergone FGC do not consider themselves to be mutilated and have become offended by the term “FGM”
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no definitive evidence documenting when or why this ritual began
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practised in ancient Egypt as a sign of distinction, while others hypothesize its origin in ancient Greece, Rome, Pre-Islamic Arabia and the Tsarist Russian Federation.
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97% of married women surveyed experienced FGC.3
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94.6% of married women had been exposed to FGC and 69.1% of those women agreed to carry out FGC on their daughters
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41% of female students in primary, preparatory and secondary schools had been exposed to FGC.
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females interviewed was 38 816. The prevalence of FGC among schoolgirls was 50.3%. The prevalence of FGC was 46.2% in government urban schools, 9.2% in private urban schools and 61.7% in rural schools.
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FGC has remained a common practice in the countries where it has traditionally been performed.4
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Egypt are type I (commonly referred to as clitoridectomy) and type II (commonly referred to as excision).5 In Africa, the most common type of FGC is type II (excision of the clitoris and the labia minor) which accounts for up to 80% of all cases.6 I
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In 1995, a ministerial decree forbade the practice and made it punishable by fine and imprisonment
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The difference in the prevalence rates of FGC is mainly due to educational status in both rural and urban areas
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There is an obvious negative correlation between the female’s parents’ education and the practice of FGC
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Parents with low or no education are the most likely to have circumcised their daughters with prevalence rates ranging between 59.5% and 65.1%
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higher degrees of education are the least likely to have their daughters circumcised and the prevalence rate ranged between 19.5% and 22.2%.
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age at which FGC is performed on girls varies
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4 and 12 years old
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the procedure may be carried out shortly after birth to some time before the age of marriage.6
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some girls mentioned that they were circumcised soon after birth, during the neonatal period.
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. In Egypt, in the past, the majority of FGC procedures were performed by traditional midwives, called dayas. However, according to the Demographic and Health Survey (1995),16 the number of
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An immediate effect of the procedure is pain because FGC is often carried out without anaesthesia.
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Short-term complications, such as severe bleeding which can lead to shock or death
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include infection because of unsanitary operating conditions, and significant psychological and psychosexual consequences of FGC
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complications (early and late) such as severe pain, bleeding, incontinence, infections, mental health problems, sexual problems, primary infertility and difficult labour with high episiotomy rate. In addition, the repetitive use of the same instruments on several girls without sterilization can cause the spread of HIV and Hepatitis B and C.
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Fathers played minor roles as decision-makers for the procedure (9.4%
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mothers are the main decision-makers for the procedure of FGC (65.2%)
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circumcision is an important religious tradition (33.4%)
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religious tradition is still the most important reason for performing FGC in Egypt,
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In these surveys, 72% of ever-married women reported that circumcision is an important part of religious tradition and about two-thirds of the women had the impression that the husband prefers his wife to be circumcised
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one-third of ever-married women cited cleanliness as a reason while a small number saw it as a way to prevent promiscuity before marriage.
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milies refuse to accept women who have not undergone FGC as marriage partners
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Around 12% of girls believed that there is no religious support for circumcision.
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. It is an issue that demands a collaborative approach involving health professionals, religious leaders, educationalists and nongovernmental organizations.
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partial or total cutting away of the female external genitalia
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Female genital cutting (FGC
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Past issues Information for contributors Editorial members How to order About the Bulletin Disclaimer Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls
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100 and 130
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cultural or other non-therapeutic reason
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28 African countries and the Middle East have been subjected to FGC.2
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million girls and women
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This is such a controversial topic. I saw a reference to it recently (was it possibly something that was brought up in the Bill Maher/Ben Affleck dust-up?) that pointed out that the practice is almost unheard of outside of central and northeastern Africa, with a few small pockets in Iraq and the Gulf.
