The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund says over 309 communities in Nigeria have publicly declared their abandonment of female genital mutilation in 2018. The UNICEF Country representative in Nigeria, Mohamed Fall, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Abuja to commemorate the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, marked every February 6 yearly. “UNICEF and partners’ interventions to ensure the elimination of FGM by 2030 has resulted in a break in the barrier against discussing FGM publicly. “Despite this decline, millions of girls and women are still faced with the scourge of genital mutilation every year in Nigeria. According to Wikipedia, the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation is a UN sponsored annual awareness day to eradicate FGM.

Source: Punch February 06, 2019 09:20 UTC