AG, Immigration Board Should ‘Affirm’ Rights Of Women Seeking Asylum Because Of Genital Cutting, Editorial Says

The U.S. has “seldom been shy in lecturing others in the world about human rights abuses,” but “it has zigzagged between compassion and confusion in its handling of women seeking refuge from” female genital cutting — also known as female genital mutilation and female circumcision — a New York Times editorial says.

More: continued here

Filed under: Sexual Health on June 30th, 2008