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...would also like to know whether Mr. Counter inspected Ms. Hosken's passport to verify whether or not she was German or Scandanavian...
Only a concerted international effort will reduce the prevalence of genital mutilation of females throughout Africa, Fran P. Hosken, editor of the Women's International Network News, told a small crowd at the Science Center yesterday...
...Female circumcision" operations--the removal of most or all of the external genitalia of female children--occur throughout continental Africa, as well as in the southern Arabian peninsula, Hosken said...
These societies traditionally teach women that the operations are necessary before marriage and fertility, Hosken said. "We wish to lay to rest the fiction that women want to have these operations," she said, adding "In fact, the women have no choice...
Beside psychological damage to women resulting from these operations, Hosken cited hemorrhage, dangerous infections, scars severe enough to prevent normal childbirth and sterility as "quite common...