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New report: Despite being forbidden by national and international law, female genital mutilation and/or excision shows no sign of abating in Guinea: 97% of women and girls aged 15 to 49 years in Guinea have undergone female genital mutilation and/or excision. “Although female genital mutilation appears to be decreasing worldwide, this is not the case in Guinea, where this practice is widespread in every region and among every ethnic, religious and social group,” said UN High Commissioner for Hum