Activists See India as New Front in Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation

FILE - Indian Dawoodi Bohra women walk past others shopping for clothes in a Bohra neighborhood in Mumbai, India, on Feb. 21, 2016. The Dawoodi Bohra Muslim sect practices the ritual of "female circumcision," called female genital mutilation in a March 8, 2024, U.N. report.

A U.N. report released Friday about the prevalence of female genital mutilation around the globe is drawing attention to the practice among the Dawoodi Bohra community, a Muslim minority sect based in India.