At a meeting of the IAC in 2003, Stella Obasanjo declared a day of "zero tolerance" for this practice, February 6th, which is now a UN-sponsored awareness day to promote the eradication of this practice.
Titles for officiants of this practice include ouddo in Somalia, daya in Egypt, and khafedha in Sudan. Nahid Toubia developed a 4-class typology of this practice, of which the "sunna" is Type I. The first attempt to map incidences of this practice came in 1979 with the first publication of Fran Hosken's namesake report on this practice. In 1996, Maendaleo Ya Wanawaka developed an alternative to this practice among the Maasai of Kenya, which is undergone "through words". At a meeting of the IAC in 2003, Stella Obasanjo declared a day of "zero tolerance" for this practice, February 6th, which is now a UN-sponsored awareness day to promote the eradication of this practice. UN efforts to abolish this practice began with a 1979 WHO Seminar on Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children in Khartoum. For 10 points, identify this practice, variants of which include infibulation and clitoridectomy.
Titles for officiants of this practice include ouddo in Somalia, daya in Egypt, and khafedha in Sudan.
Female Genital Mutilation [or Female Circumcision or Female Genital Cutting] 