More than 230 million girls and women alive today in the world have undergone genital mutilation, a figure up 15% since the previous estimate in 2016, according to a Unicef report published Thursday March 7.
Africa is the most affected continent with more than 144 million survivors of female genital mutilation, ahead of Asia (80 million) and the Middle East (six million), specifies this report which focuses on 31 countries where the practice is common.