Lead Author:
CALLAGHAN Sean
Published by:
Aha Foundation
Year published:
2023
THIS REPORT FINDS that previous studies of FGM/C in the United States overestimated the potentially impacted population because they did not consider the impact of migration on the practice. Those studies calculated that over half a million women and girls were impacted by FGM/C whereas, based on our calculations, there were 421,000 women and girls impacted by FGM/C in the United States in 2019. While most of those women and girls were already living with FGM/C, it was estimated that 31,000 children remained at risk.