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Campaigners against female circumcision scored a major victory Monday with the approval by a key U.N. committee of a resolution calling for a global ban on female genital mutilation.
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Female genital mutilation is a partial or complete removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs, for non-medical reasons
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The resolution, adopted by consensus by the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee, calls the practice harmful and a serious threat to the psychological, sexual and reproductive health of women and girls.

It calls on the U.N.'s 193 member states to condemn the practice, known as FGM, and launch education campaigns for girls and boys, women and men, to eliminate it. It also urges all countries to enact and enforce legislation to prohibit FGM, to protect women and girls "from this form of violence," and to end impunity for violators.

With 110 sponsors, the resolution is virtually certain to be approved by the full General Assembly, which is expected to take it up in the second half of December. Although not legally binding, assembly resolutions reflect international concerns and carry moral and political weight.
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The U.N. said in 2010 that about 70 million girls and women had undergone the procedure, and the World Health Organization said about 6,000 girls were circumcised every day.
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Jose Luis Diaz, Amnesty International's U.N. representative, said this is the first time the General Assembly's human rights committee has addressed the problem.

"FGM is an indictment of us all — that a girl or young woman can be held down and mutilated is a violation of her human rights and, shockingly, an estimated three million girls are at risk each year," he said.

Alvilda Jablonko, coordinator of the FGM program at the organization No Peace Without Justice, applauded the committee's action as "a landmark step in the international campaign to foster global leadership" in the campaign against the practice.

So let's see... partial removal of genitalia for cultural, religious and other non-medical reasons... nothing comes to mind.... hmmmm... no clue at all.... what could it be?

Oh right. There are 600 million circumcised men in the world who have also had a part of their genitals forcibly removed for cultural, religious and non-medical reasons. This is at least five times the number of women affected in the same way. Where is my resolution?

Of course that mutilating genital organs for no reason whatsoever should be banned, but that goes for both genders, not just females. This resolution is completely hypocritical.