CHAPTER 3

Female Genital Mutilation Still Common in Somaliland

1. Of girls and women in Somaliland the proportion that is believed to have undergone genital mutilation is

75 percent

80 percent

95 percent

97 percent

2. Traditional belief is that genital mutilation

Prepares women for marriage

Makes women more fertile

Makes women more desirous of sex

Keeps women at home

3. Women who have undergone genital mutilation

Have excessive bleeding

Have urinary infections

Have difficulty giving birth

All of the above

4. The practice of female genital mutilation

Is increasing

Is declining rapidly

Is slowly beginning to change

Is staying the same