Iran-BNS-FA10

__** HUMAN RIGHTS: FEMALE GENITAL MU ﻿ TILAZATION **__


 * Primary Documents:**

Female Genital Mutilation: How one mother came to reject an ancient tradition This document shared a womans expiriance of her violent circumsition. The women was was tied down and circumsised without even knowing what was about to be done to her. The circumsition went against her human rights and showed that women in Iran have no voice in the circumstion.

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The video caught my attention because you saw heard another story of a women who was circumsized against her will. It was interesting to see that she was standing up for her daughter so she did not have to expiriance the pain the mother had to. Also the video showed a midwife that explained the cutting process and showed you the razor used to make the circumsision which made you imagine the pain expirianced.


 * Artifacts:**

[|Egypt: Human Rights Watch] The section about womens rights in this article showed that dispite laws passed in 2008 women still struggle in Egypt. Dispite laws on FGM has yet to issue implementing regulations.

[|About FGM: Female Genital Mutilation] I chose this article because you dont really know how horrible and tragic the expiriance is until you read about what the proceedure really is. It also shows how there are countries where the mutilation is unkown.

[|Female Genital Cutting: Affecting Young Girls in America] In America the proceedure has been banned since 1996, however there are people with certain religions that still want the proccedure done to their daughter. In one womens case she told ABC news that if her parents found out that she was speaking out about the FGM they would literally kill her**.**