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Is Zero Tolerance the Right Approach for FGM?

For more than two decades, the United Nations has led a fierce campaign against 鈥楩emale Genital Mutilation鈥. And yet it still happens to millions of girls every year.

In 1994 a United Nations conference, backed by 173 countries, announced that 鈥榝emale genital mutilation鈥 was a 鈥渧iolation of basic rights and a major lifelong risk to women鈥檚 health鈥. Agreeing it should end, international agencies and charities quickly swung into action, and over the next two decades millions were spent on campaigns to eradicate the practise around the world. Today though, pricking or cutting of the genitalia still happens to an estimated 3 million girls a year in 30 countries, and some experts are saying we should rethink how we tackle it. In this episode of The Inquiry we talk to four expert witnesses, all with very different views on what the next steps should be.

This programme contains frank discussions of a physical and sexual nature.

(Image: A demonstration against female genital mutilation at the Nairobi World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. Credit: Marco Longari/Getty Images)

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