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Those who suffered torture and other acts of mutilation will receive individualised rehabilitation programmes, it added.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

Halfway through college, Russell spent two months in Tanzania assisting a nonprofit that taught female genital mutilation survivors how to make clothes to support themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

It inspired his themes—war, fear, mutilation, endurance, courage, comradeship and death—and his laconic and stoical, virile and aggressive heroes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Speaking about the medicalization of female genital mutilation, Pallitto clarified, “When we talk about medicalization it's not necessarily that it's done by a doctor.”

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2024

Since the pigs cannot find food or even find their way around without sniffing, this mutilation makes them completely dependent on their human owners.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari