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Title: Female Genital Mutilation: A Physical Attack on the Basic Human Rights of Young Women
Authors: Kumar, Shivam
Verma, Sachin
Keywords: Mutilation
Custom
Human Rights
Community
Adolescent girls
Discrimination
Circumcision
Religion
Legal norms
medical purposes
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: International Journal of Law and Social Sciences
Alliance School of Law, Alliance University
Citation: Vol. 8, No. 1; pp. 85-90
Abstract: There is no doubt about this universal fact that women across the globe especially young girls have been subjected to harassment and violence since time immemorial in the garb of customary practices and traditions. Mutilation of Female Genitalia (FGM) is also a type of barbaric tradition, blatantly violent and has no ethical and religious basis. It involves all the inhumane procedures relating to the semi or overall amputation of peripheral genital privates or erstwhile forms of harm in female reproductive organs for non-remedial purposes. It has been seen that women around about 200 million globally who had gone through the consequence of FGM and nearly 3.8 million females are at the risk of circumcision.3 This results in the severe violation of human rights which has been outlined in numerous international human rights documents. Despite all this, FGM is still flourishing globally and Dawoodi Bohras community in India is a prime example of that. Therefore, human right based legislation on FGM is the need of the hour. Hence, in this paper, the researchers have made an attempt to put forward the blueprint of exploitation and violence faced by females in the name of female genital mutilation which not only hampers their individual dignity and privacy, but it also puts a question mark on the so-called quest of women empowerment all around the world.
URI: https://doi.org/10.60143/ijls.v8.i1.2022.72
http://gnanaganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/5511
ISSN: 2454-8553
2583-8644
Appears in Collections:IJLS - Vol 8, Issue 1 2022

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