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EPISODE · Feb 5, 2022 · 20 MIN

2. Female Genital Mutilation | a conversation about reconstructive surgery and the absurdity of medicalised Genital Mutilation

from Life Lessons · host Assita Kanko

"I want to be whole again," says a victim of this atrocity. A conversation with Dr. Foldès, European Commissionner Dalli, and Women Safe director Frederique Martz about the consequences and horrors of Genital Mutilation of young girls and women. A conversation about the need for reconstructive surgery, the madness of medical genital mutilation that also puts mother and child in great danger during childbirth. On the responsibility of politicians to put an end to this barbarism that unfortunately still occurs in Europe. Doctor Foldès is one of Assita's heroes. He has already helped more than 6,000 women. Produced in cooperation with the Translation Office of the European Parliament, DG TRAD. 

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