1602 Human Rights News Female Genital Mutilation—The Numbers Keep Rising February, 2016April, 2020 ZPDSK Nearly half of all Indonesian females under the age of twelve have undergone female genital mutilation or cutting, as it’s formally known. The new numbers bump up the worldwide total to at least two hundred million women and girls, alive today, who have undergone genital mutilation—some just a few weeks after birth, the vast majority before the age of ten. Source: Newyorker.com