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How to end female genital mutilation? UN seeks to eradicate practice by 2030 Despite undeniable progress towards ending female genital mutilation, it still exists on six continents, mostly in the Middle East and Africa. The United Nations has set the ambitious goal of eradicating all forms of the practice by 2030, but that will require changes to existing methods on confronting it. Among them: providing more funding to grassroots, local activists and including postcolonial critiques and a better human rights framework in anti-FGM laws. Erin Ogunkeye spoke to Dr. Wisal Ahmed of UNFPA and Kenyan anti-FGM campaigner Sadia Hussein for more. We also take a look at the proliferation of "medical FGM" in Kenya despite the criminalisation of the procedure since 2011.