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>>The scale of FGM is simply enormous. Three million girls a year are cut.
140 million women are living with the consequences. It's a centuries' old tradition.
It predates both Christianity and Islam, and it's believed to have
started in Egypt, we think. It happens in 28 countries across Africa.
It also happens in Indonesia, Malaysia, Yemen, Kurdistan, various other
pockets around the world. But more than that, it's now a global problem.
It happens in all of those disparate communities. So in Australia, in the UK, throughout Europe,
the USA -- almost everyplace in the globe, FGM is a problem.
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