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When Nimko Ali, 29, spoke out against female genital mutilation, with her group, Daughters of Eve, she received death threats.
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In Kenya, wife inheritance and genital mutilation with shared needles has been a contributing factor, said Ida B. Odinga, from that nation's League of Women Voters.
He detailed electric shocks, dripping acid, and mutilation with electric drills -- not the usual discourse for State of the Union addresses.
"There is also a huge pressure within these communities to keep quiet about female genital mutilation, with some people even being threatened with violence if they speak out.
Earlier, in his State of the Union address, he catalogued "methods used in the torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape".
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Women's prisons in England and Wales are undergoing an "epidemic of self-mutilation", with one in four female prisoners having self-harmed, according to a new Oxford University study.
Bronstein films the physical harm that the characters inflict on each other and on themselves — including self-mutilation with an X-Acto knife, allergy-blemished skin rubbed raw for kicks, and dumb, brutal fistfights — with terrible sympathy; the extraordinarily expressive images, shot in low light, are rough and grainy, as though they were scarred as well.
"No one associated self-mutilation with children or teenagers in the Victorian era or the first half of the 20th century.
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