Today as this article says is "Zero Tolerance Day for Female Genital Mutilation."
Even in the US, hundreds of thousands of girls are at risk for female genital mutilation
by Andrea G. Bottner | February 06, 2020 12:00 AM
Thursday is Zero Tolerance Day for Female Genital Mutilation. Many may wonder why we need a day like this. We don’t want to think about this kind of horrific practice and assume that it has nothing to do with our country.
But that’s wrong. Female genital mutilation refers to the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia for nonmedical reasons: a practice that has no health benefits and brings lifelong physical and psychological consequences. Female genital mutilation is violence against women at its worst.
More than 200 million young women around the world have been subjected to this violence. It is traumatic for young girls to undergo, it is not a valid religious practice, and it is simply an unacceptable violation of the rights of young women and girls.
Read more at: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/zero-tolerance-for-female-genital-mutilation
