Indonesia: Seeking End to Female Genital Mutilation

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
Indonesia: Seeking End to Female Genital Mutilation
Human Rights Watch – September 26, 2016
The campaign, led by Yohana Yembise, the country’s minister for women’s empowerment and child protection, will deploy “scientific evidence” to dissuade religious and women’s groups who support FGM. Between 2010 to 2015, 49 percent of girls from birth to 14 years of age in Indonesia had undergone FGM.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/09/26/indonesia-seeks-end-female-genital-mutilation