How do cultural rituals and ceremonies involve FGM?

Jul 15, 2024 ... In 2015, the adoption of the Women's (Amendment) Act, which criminalizes and sets out punishments for performing, aiding and abetting the ... In order to determine where Islamic Sharia stands as far as FGM is concerned we have to search in the Holy Quran, then the Sunna, then. Ijma' and finally Qiyas. FGM is mostly carried out on young girls between infancy and age 15. Procedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, as well as cysts, infections, ... FGM is the collective term for a range of procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the femila ... The practice of cutting girls is frequently based on a traditional belief in the need to control a girl's sexuality and ensure her virginity until marriage. Jan 22, 2025 ... Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the partial or full cutting of a girl's clitoris and labia, ... The practice of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) still affects almost the entire female population of Somalia, according to a recent query resp... Feb 6, 2019 ... Female genital mutilation, or FGM for short, is the deliberate cutting or removal of a female's external genitalia. Female genital mutilation increases the risks of immediate and long-term psychological, obstetric, genitourinary and sexual and reproductive health ... Abstract. Flash glucose monitoring (FGM) is widely accepted as an alternative means to conventional finger prick test for measuring glucose level in individuals ...