Thomson Reuters Foundation: Egypt doctor convicted over girl’s death in landmark FGM case
“An Egyptian doctor has been convicted of manslaughter after a 13-year-old girl died in a botched female genital mutilation procedure, campaigners said on Monday following the country’s first FGM trial. Equality Now called the ruling a ‘monumental victory’ for women and girls in a country which has one of the world’s highest prevalence rates of FGM…” (Batha, 1/26).