I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down,” said Hawa’a Mohamed Kamil, a peer educator in Djibouti, who was ...

Female genital mutilation is internationally recognized as a human rights violation, and involves altering or injuring the ...

"I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down," said Hawa'a Mohamed Kamil. Now 30, she was subjected to female genital mutilation at just six years old - an experience that left not only ...