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[1] World Health Organization

[2] UNFPA, implementation of the International and regional Human Rights framework for the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation

[3] Harinder Baweja, India’s Dark Secret, Hindustan Times

[4] R. Ghadially, ‘All for ‘Izzat’: The Practice of Female Circumcision among Bohra Muslims’

[5] WHO, Health risks of female genital mutilation (FGM)

[6] Article 3, UDHR

[7] Article 5, UDHR

[8] ‘Female Genital Mutilation: A Matter of Human Rights’, Centre for Reproductive Rights (New York, 2006)

[9] Study by Amnesty International

[10] Hanny Lightfoot Klein on FGM

[11] Harinder Baweja, India’s Dark Secret, Hindustan Times

[12] Yasmin Bootwala, “A Review of Female Genital Cutting in the Dawoodi Bohra Community: Part 3—the Historical, Anthropological and Religious Underpinnings of FGC in the Dawoodi Bohras

[13] Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) and Anr. v. Union Of India And Ors., (2017) 10 SCC 1

[14] Waris (2005)

[15] Rasheeda Bhagat, ‘Ban this barbarous practice!’, Hindu Business Line

[16] SOAT 1999

[17] Kenya Demographic and Health Survey

[18] Population Media Centre, 2009

[19] Save Somalia Women and Children

[20] World Bank & UNFPA, 2004

[21] Afrol News, 2006

[22] Shreyashi Ghosh, “Beyond spaces: debunking public/private divide in understanding violence against women in India” 1 Indian Journal of Gender Studies

[23] Sunita Tiwari vs Union of India

[24] HT Correspondent, ‘Female Genital Mutilation violates fundamental rights, says Supreme Court

[25] Simantini Dey, ‘Women from the Bohra Community Are Fighting Against Female Genital Mutilation to Win Back Their Freedom