Day: June 27, 2014

One small step is basically standing still

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The Nile Delta. The red pin is the home city of the defendants, the right angle to a triangle connecting Alexandria and Cairo. Image: google maps
The Nile Delta. The red pin is the home city of the defendants, the right angle to a triangle connecting Alexandria and Cairo. Image: google maps

In August, 2013, Nat Geo wrote that the rate for female genital mutilation in Egypt was dropping. (See The Eternal Sunshine of National Geographic.)  Sadly, dropping means going from 97 percent to around 90 percent.  In a culture where the practice is so embedded it is called “The Pharaonic Custom,”  miraculously, this drop happened in only a decade. Continue reading “One small step is basically standing still” →