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Senegal group finds some success in stopping genital mutilation in African communities

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Summary
Nutrition label

67% Informative

An estimated 230 million women and girls are subjected to genital mutilation.

One group in Senegal has had success in getting thousands of communities to abandon the practice.

Fred de Sam Lazaro is director of the Under-Told Stories Project at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota .

VR Score

68

Informative language

66

Neutral language

93

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

49

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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no external sources

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no sources

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