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Kenya: A 'house of hope' for women at risk of FGM

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In the remote district of Narok in southwestern Kenya, a village elder claims that female genital mutilation is virtually non-existent here. To the women, this sounds like mockery. "Why do you say you've stopped when teenage girls regularly have to go to the hospital bleeding?" one of them exclaims. Circumcision is …

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