Female Genital Cutting is a term which refers to all measures relating partial or total eradication of the external genital organs of the female or additional injuries to the female genital organs. Female Genital Cutting also commonly known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is any procedure involving the elimination of female genital organs for religious, cultural or non-beneficial reasons that are not medical necessities.

Female Genital Mutilation involves a process of Clitoridectomy that is the removal of part of female genitals known as clitoris. Female Genital Cutting is most commonly performed in the age group ranging from 4 – 8 years of girls. It can take place at any age from toddler to adolescence.

There are no health benefits to girls and women in this process. This process involves destructing healthy female genital tissues and harming them in many ways. Female Genital Mutilation is universally identified as a violation of human rights of women and girls.