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Stigma, rejection forces married women to undergo the cut

Kenya: She had become a black sheep in her husband’s family. Other women in the community avoided her like plague.

Mary *, 21, faced humiliation because according to the Kuria cultural beliefs, she was a disgust to ancestors for refusing to undergo Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

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