Five years ago, over 3 million girls were at risk of undergoing female genital cutting, a process that involves the partial or complete removal of a girl’s external genitals.  And yet back then, too few people were talking about it or even realized it was an issue: “I don’t think people really understand it exists,” said Kathy Calvin from the United Nations Foundation. She was speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. As the winner of the 2010 Davos Debate – a competition that offered members of the public the chance to go to Davos and advocate for an urgent human rights cause – I was on that panel with her. I had one goal at that meeting: to bring the issue into the mainstream. “Issues like female genital mutilation can’t stay on the margins; they have to be debated at the highest levels,” I told a journalist at the time.
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