 Kurdish human rights organizations have reported several times that FGM is not a part of Kurdish culture and authorities aren't doing enough to stop it completely.According to a 2008 report in the "Washington Post", the Kurdistan region of Iraq is one of the few places in the world where female genital mutilation had been rampant.According to one study carried out in 2008, approximately 60% of all women in Kurdish areas of northern Iraq had been mutilated.