Egypt making slow progress on genital mutilation

Thursday, November 20, 2014

MANSHIET EL-IKHWA, Egypt -- Raslan Fadl, the first doctor in Egypt to be put on trial for committing female genital mutilation, is still practicing even though a 13-year-old girl died after he performed the procedure. In this Nile delta village, he has plenty of patients.

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