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Burkina Faso

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Organized and Institutionalized Sexual Exploitation and Violence

Law and Policy

The practice of genital mutilation has been eliminated in some villages of Burkina Faso. In other villages, there has been a drop in the number of girls mutilated to 10% from 100% ten years ago Government advertising campaign and television and radio programs on the unhealthy practice of genital mutilation were launched to educate and raise public awareness. A National Anti-Excision Committee was established in 1990 by the present head of State. (Report of the Special Rapporteur, "Women and Violence," United Nations Department of Public Information, February 1998)

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Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation
Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic and Nadine Z. Mendelsohn