The TaskForce for Effective Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation sees the use of “harmless” terms like “cutting” or “circumcision” as an obstruction to stopping genital mutilation.
We support the Bamako Declaration of the IAC, the largest African network against genital mutilation.
Task Force fails to understand the resistance of German organisations such as UNICEF, PLAN, Care, FORWARD, etc. who still insist on use of the term “circumcision”, thereby ignoring the wishes of the African people who have been fighting for many decades for the end of female genital mutilation.