Title: The girl with three legs
Description: A personal story of female genital mutilation. Mire reveals what it means to grow up in a traditional Somali family, where girls' and women's basic human rights are violated on a daily basis. She describes FGM is the ultimate child abuse, a ritual of mutilation handed down from mother to daughter and protected by the word "culture."
Subjects: Prevention, Psychological aspects, Social aspects, Biography, Female circumcision, Rites and ceremonies, Women, Women, biography, Somalia, social conditions
Places: Somalia
People: Soraya Mire