Norway, Sweden and Denmark do the right thing. Scandinavians — rather than quietly recoiling as immigrant mothers take their Europe-born daughters on vacation to Africa be circumcised — are fighting the traffic in female genital mutilation (FGM). Swe... ...full story at Peking Duck
from Peking Duck on Sun, Sep 20 2009
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