The country banned all forms of female genital mutilation since 2007. It declared as ‘prohibited for any doctors, nurses, or any other person to carry out any cut of, flattening or modification of any natural part of the female reproductive system’.
Previously, girls underwent such procedure for health reasons. A 2013 UNICEF report stated that Egypt had the highest number of women and girls who had had FGM procedures: 27.2 million. However, the figure seems to be going down following interventions made by bodies like the UNDP and other partners in Egypt.
The country even had its first trial against the practice in November 2014. Two men involved were acquitted but the doctor was ordered to pay the girl’s mother compensation. But in 2015, after an appeal, the doctor was sentenced to more than two years in prison. The father was also sentenced to three months in prison.
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