No other African country that has recently banned female circumcision, including Egypt, Ghana and Burkina Faso, dares enforce the law.

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Female circumcision is illegal in the UK. The maximum penalty for carrying it out was recently increased from five to 14 years.

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One of them, Lord Justice Auld, said female circumcision was an "evil practice" which violates Article 3 (degrading treatment) of the European Convention of Human Rights.

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The CMC volunteers will be trained in how to identify cases of gender-based violence, how to communicate with victims and how to create and animate radio programmes sensitizing the listeners to such issues as early marriage, female circumcision, wife inheritance, incest etc.

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The data, released by the UN children's charity and UN population fund on the international day calling for an end to FMG, showed that the younger generation was less vulnerable to female circumcision in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where it is usually practised.

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The article reported on a Ugandan HIV circumcision study ending early because it showed that circumcising men who already have HIV does not protect their female partners from the virus.

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