Reformed cutters protect the next generation from female genital mutilation in Kenya
UNFPA
February is a busy month for retailers marketing the promise of “happily ever after” to girls around the world. But for tens of millions of girls, this is just a fairy tale. Their girlhoods are ending,not with storybook romance but with harmful rites of passage such as child marriage and female genital mutilation – practices believed to be increasing as the COVID-19 pandemic forces girls out of school and drags their families into poverty. calls on leaders, community members and parents to take decisive action against female genital mutilation and early marriage.