The most moderate form of FGM is called Sunni, which involves the covering of the clitoris being removed. This procedure can take place with a girl as young as six. In Sudan, war and famine have affected the traditional systems and laws for protecting women's rights, and the condition of women and girls has worsened. In the South, half the women refugees are widows. Population displacement has increased prostitution, rape and sexually transmitted diseases.
Child labor is another form of abuse in the Sudan.
Female children are forced into early marriages, which endanger their health. When these young women are getting married at earlier ages, they must go through this traditional rite of passage to affirm their sexual purity. Female genital mutilation has long been performed to ensure chaste or monogamous behavior by the supression of female sexuality. It is commonly associated with religious edict yet neither Islam nor Christianity officially sanction it. FGM is dangerous.