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U.N. Population Fund: Changing Perceptions to End a Harmful Tradition in Northern Iraq
October 30, 2021
NEW YORK, Oct. 30 -- The United Nations Population Fund, formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, issued the following news:

"Come with me, we need to go to the bakery, my mother told me one morning. That day, I experienced fear, deception and excruciating pain. I was only seven," Dania/* explained recently, describing the day she underwent female genital mutilation in her home town, Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq.

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