Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"The only other successful prosecution under the FGM Act of 2003 was in 2019 when a Ugandan woman from Walthamstow, east London, was jailed for 11 years for cutting a three-year-old girl. The 37-year-old woman, who cannot be named, had arranged for the little girl to be pinned down and mutilated in a filthy flat in east London in August 2017. She was jailed for 13 years at the Old Bailey" (para 13-14). "Figures produced by the NHS in 2022 suggested there may be more than 3,000 newly identified victims of FGM in the UK each year. NHS Digital produced stats of cases which were spotted by nurses or doctors...more

Countries: Indonesia
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"Till now unfortunately medicalization of FGM/C still perform in clinics and hospitals. UNICEF Indonesia conducted 2 surveys in 2013 which showed that 300,000 households in 33 provinces and 497 cities have stated that more than 50% of their girls were circumcised before the age of 12" (4).

Countries: Somalia
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"Countries with the highest levels of female genital mutilation are Somalia (99%), Guinea (95%) and Djibouti (90%)" (para 13). "Somalia and Sudan face the challenge of addressing widespread female genital mutilation amid conflict and population growth" (para 16).

Countries: Kenya
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"In Kenya, over the last half century a remarkable transformation has occurred. Female genital mutilation was once widespread, but most of the country has now abandoned the practice. Yet among the Somali community, concentrated in the north-eastern province of Kenya, there has been little change, and the practice remains nearly universal" (para 14-15).

Countries: Ethiopia
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"Ethiopia has consistently made progress, but climate shocks, disease and food insecurity make it harder to maintain these successes" (para 17). "Ethiopia, Nigeria and Sudan account for the largest numbers of girls and women who have undergone female genital mutilation in conflict-affected countries" (para 24).

Countries: Sierra Leone
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2, DMW-PRACTICE-2

“Thirteen-year-old Salamatu Jalloh had her whole future to look forward to. But in January 2023, her lifeless body was found wrapped in a pink and blue shroud on an earthen floor in a village in north-west Sierra Leone. Salamatu and two other girls bled to death after participating in a secret Bondo society initiation into womanhood. The ceremony, which lasts for several weeks, began with a sense of excitement and anticipation – a rare occasion in this rural community to celebrate girls. But at its core was a violent act: the cutting and removal of the girls’ external genitalia” (para 1-2).

Countries: Djibouti
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"In countries such as Djibouti and Sierra Leone, where it is still common, more men than women said they were opposed" (para 26).

Countries: Indonesia
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"In Asia, the largest share of cases is in Indonesia, where 55 percent of girls undergo a genital mutilation procedure, government figures show" (para 8).

Countries: Somalia
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"But in Somalia, where an estimated 99 percent of women have had their clitoris excised, the level of cutting has not changed" (para 2).

Countries: Kenya
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"The new data shows that a significant shift has happened in a few countries, such as Kenya, where the practice was widespread 30 years ago and is limited today to the areas of the country where most people are from the Somali ethnic community" (para 19). "Working in her home region in the northwest of Kenya, she said that getting people to speak publicly about the practice has been key to lowering the practice’s prevalence to 9 percent of girls aged 15 to 19 years, from 23 percent three decades ago" (para 21).

Countries: Iraq
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"Women in Iraq generally face high levels of gender-based violence, including female genital mutilation" (2). "Despite the criminalization of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Kurdistan in 2011, FGM continues to be practised on girls and women… Due to the fact that FGM has become illegal and bears criminal consequences, the practice has now gone underground" (4).

Countries: Gambia
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"Almost three-quarters of women (73%) aged between 15 and 49 have undergone FGM, according to the country’s demographic health survey 2019-20, and almost two-thirds (65%) were cut before they were five" (para 4).

Countries: Guinea
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"In Guinea, our data show 97% of women and girls have undergone FGM/C" (para 7).

Countries: Sierra Leone
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"In Guinea, our data show 97% of women and girls have undergone FGM/C, while in Mali the figure stands at 83%, and in Sierra Leone, 90%" (para 7).

Countries: Niger
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"Female genital mutilation decreased considerably in Niger between 1998 and 2006, from around 5% to 2%, thanks in particular to the popularisation and application of Article 232 of the Nigerien Penal Code. Younger generations are not aware of the existence of this practice, which tends to disappear, even though it is still practised to a small extent, particularly in the West of the country" (1).