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EGYPTIAN STREETS (Cairo, Egypt)

"...While FGM appears to have declined among younger Egyptian women, potentially indicating a rising trend against the practice, statistics from 2004-2015 indicate that 87 percent of girls and women aged 15 to 49 years in Egypt have undergone FGM..."

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EGYPTIAN STREETS (Cairo, Egypt)

"...While FGM appears to have declined among younger Egyptian women, potentially indicating a rising trend against the practice, statistics from 2004-2015 indicate that 87 percent of girls and women aged 15 to 49 years in Egypt have undergone FGM..."

URL to article: http://egyptianstreets.com/2016/02/05/female-genital-mutilation-among-egyptian-teenage-girls-drops-by-27-percent/