If i sound behind though what it means to experience gentle mutilation as a little cold feet after effects the resulting pain and disability my hands still show the complication snowman him. Every day fatima coren battles with what was done to her as a child in somalia for more than 30 years she has worked in germany as an interpreter and author of now more and more unaccompanied young women who have undergone f. P. M. Have been coming to germany for help. Vs the buy and push from just thats what the key to this massive destruction of sexuality is absolutely deliberate. And sometimes that is the central motive for this 1000 year old tradition women are not supposed to be able to act out their sexuality on sex and especially not enjoy the god stuff on software. 95 percent of women in somalia have undergone genital mutilation fatima corn was born there are 964. 00 to a family of nomads she was caught at the age of 7 according to what is sometimes called fairy onic tradition. In its own money away here in somalia where i come from theres only one type of cutting the clutter is removed and partially scraped off down to the bone. Yet then the entire in the lady are scraped out totally like scraping leather. Yes. Because and then whats left of the labor mature a is either peeled off from the inside or incised or pissed and then it is also in together from front to back until its like this. Because we fear. Thats actually too big smaller until the opening thats left can just i mean that i think the q tip tip just a few and thats where urine and menstrual blood has to flow out so thats the sewing is done with whatever they have i personally was sewn up with thongs to give me. The wound became infected and the resulting subsists damaged her nervous system. In 1979 fatima korn came to germany where she wrote several books about her experience and became a qualified interpreter. Working as an interpreter she has met many women with similar experiences like namco who was a child when she fled somalia. Has been to name call been my memory cosponsor im 20 years old. And i come from somalia and ive been here in germany for 5 years. 5 years more has been like a mother to me someone whos always there for me just. The most in the case still dont have as i keep telling you this country was really one that really. Did listen to me anyway. The men are fallen and officially the men i want a woman whos cut because if she isnt shes not a real woman. She seems less shes unclean. Shes not a real woman and not one youd want. But im a corn arranged surgery for her to reopen the sewn up area. But nemmco was still struggling both physically and psychologically. In the perfume house and you had problems with the gynecologist but i didnt remember it being this bad or have. It made my stomach hurt to see you so tense so im going on i knew you couldnt open or close your legs they were so stiff even when the doctor wasnt doing anything 45 the what up is like a look at my hand she said im not touching you you were trembling. Since then ive had this tension. Of mine involved in my belly im so tense. And even up on my shoulder up here. On. As i think of as i know its all in your head right or if i call it the scissors in your head because the memory is so awful so brutal the internet im so hes so good my. Nemmco was cut in somalia at the age of 5. She says she cant remember it anymore but has recurring nightmares. Been having us human for me as i dreamed someone is standing in front of me and wanting to cut me. When i was younger when i was cut i had dreams where he screamed and there was blood all over the floor and the strange lady who had cut me was there and then i couldnt shut my eyes anymore. At the age of 13 she left somalia made her way to libya and somehow managed to get on a boat. She had just turned 15 when she arrived in germany. In his practice gynecologist Christoph Sam has experience with the suffering caused by female genital mutilation or after. He is one of a handful of gynecologists in germany who have specialized in this problem he has been treating affected women for more than 20 years he writes Expert Opinions and arranges operations including surgery to reconstruct the clearest. D m a not often zend. This is science is the practice this are patriarchal societies in which women play a fundamentally subordinate role. And from that subordinate role they can only become a halfway respected member of society through marriage. That is the bottom line in all the practicing societies is itself but the entry the ticket to being married to it is being cut highlighted via couldnt if a girl is not cut she cant be married because shes looked down on as a prostitute. And a prostitute you had to up to viet it felt. Violated us so is is because thats the way it has. You know there isnt grandmothers carrying it out to give their young daughters a realistic chance in a society. And. Their sense of duty is so ingrained as the fall is that the women themselves promoted because they know how oppressed they are in their society does any since these are this way they ensure that the young women at least get this chance of being respected in the society alternately they ensure that she can survive its. The men of the had the men are raised in the same way. As you may only marry your girl who is cut. If you discover on your wedding night that she isnt its your duty under threat of social ostracism to shame the girl and send her back to work parents. So both genders are the victims of this 1000 year old traditional targets on. The World Health Organization estimates that 200000000 women worldwide have undergone genital mutilation a growing number of them are seeking shelter in germany and the offshore it is there are becoming more aware of the issue however there are. A lack of expertise about after i am in refugee agencies and the Health System thats where volunteers like father more corn come in. My friends and me sometimes people ask me why i do all this work with the girls its so draining. But i think back then i had no help in that situation and id have loved to have an experienced woman tell me i know the right talk to ill take you there if i dont want to counselling can he can ask and so you have someone to hold you tight thats the last of the fist i didnt have anyone and i vowed to myself to help the girls if i had the chance. To move the speech and. That is why she founded the n. G. O. S nala. Hello another girls at the University Stop close to. That ill be over then 3 minutes and youd better be there. Every 2 weeks she meets up with her proteges in this house in munich district she met most of them while acting as their interpreter and they now live scattered throughout the area they come from eritrea somalia ethiopia and most are still minors so their faces may not be shown on camera or to talk about are you looking for an internship. I dont exactly have a place yet but i will you also want to go into medical profession right no no. I want to be so what do you want to be what profession thank you no kinda got me going that god could have gotten over a childminder thats so nice. They like talking about boys after all theyre young girls west so how does he was when his posed him self so that you can see everything its absolute. 0 like all the foreigners and the dishes go they stand like this all the time its ok just to go and watch them is hilarious she. Tries to find a playful way to familiarize the girls with the new open western world of femininity and. Sexuality despite their trauma. You never meet incompetences when the other girls are phenomenal. They talk about sex all the time about having babies about their figures and make up with but i think theyre all in delayed puberty the confusion of wall flight and detention in libya prevented them from acting out their femininity and here they can. Sex i think sex is something to fuse for them they dont really comprehend it yet they all think theyre in love every day and someone else but i honestly think they have no idea what sex really means expedited. Almost of the girls have had reversal surgery they know that genital mutilation carried out in their childhood will impact their sex lives forever. As of was just brought on by us how. Weve talked about sex about cutting and how when a woman has been cut how it will be later when shes married how the man will treat her what hell do. When a woman whos been cut whos had the operation i dont know how it is that others but you wont have sexual feelings like other women. So to give. You wont be so open you just where feel anything. The groups discussions with a sex therapist have left namco confused she was told that her entire body is an erogenous zone but for now that is just theory. I loved by my one of them said that you can create sex feelings in your head and you can have these thoughts but i dont know how that works and. When those kinds of questions come up father mo is a counselor a best friend a mother its an exhausting task. Shes always on the go always traveling on public transport. In a sense she is still a nomad even though she has been a german citizen for decades shes constantly on the phone usually its an emergency is priceless he whatever happens youre in the best of hands with the doctors here and. You who perform for us in. Oh no i have to get off its living again. If a bit i need to get out laughs. We know its not opening. Thank you so much is not only an interpreter because she is involved in networks fighting f. P. M. She is a go to person for the authorities. Its common for funding when i get calls from the police from hospital Emergency Rooms because even come at 4 in the morning come again with this big and so if i want some time off i have to turn everything off where i can be reached. She is the expert in southern germany in cases involving genital mutilation today the social workers at a Migrant Reception Center in munich have asked for her help. And he is the father one of this is fatima again can the family come out im waiting at the gate. And. Bring their things to soften the bring in. The. Hollow you see how you know you said a little human you. Do have a cold that was one that has objectives before before you broke him has little to do with. This family with 4 daughters is due to be deported to nigeria they say the girls face after i am there fatima reads through their decision their asylum application has been rejected subsidiary protection has not been granted the pregnant mother is about to have another girl. She and her children are supposed to leave germany within 30 days. For the problem is that one of the 4 daughters is cuts and the other 30 and if one of the girls is cuts and they are deported if that means that the other girls are at risk in their home country thats the problem. This is a. Family has decided to go public with their story. Matters as parents have the 2nd youngest girl cut while he was at work and his wife was at the market. Truck it. Is easier yeah pamphlet because this is one blunder something thats inflation studio and they say you have to go home. Yet this is what this is because they do believe that you can. Say to your wife. I want to see. The never. Yet i dont believe in this last without even. Live in this legit also the after. So. Dot so why do people want to give much. Thats why i will call it all germany. When there is a risk of after German Authorities check whether the person can move elsewhere in their country to escape or in the case of this family they suggest the wife and children hide out in lagos. Yes its kind of 1st of all there was no interpreter for their language and secondly theyre demanding of this family that their hideout somewhere in lagos. This is that if they like it will work out somehow youll have to risk it. You must risk invest that makes me so angry african culture isnt so simple that i can leave the countryside and just hide out somewhere in the city land. Where am i supposed to hide out the thought what does that mean right out at most i can camp somewhere on the street with my children manicured and compu after 2 weeks theyll start theyre deliberately risking that these children will be home. Leaves me speechless in the shadow. The banff the federal office for migration and refugees in nuremberg does not comment on individual cases but the Department Head did respond to our question on whether the agency actually recommended hiding out in a huge city like lagos. But hideouts was put in quotation marks here. Pushing for their own certain requirements that we have to check if we believe that International Relocation is an alternative. Thats the most important thing of course is that this new location has to be safe it has to be reachable and it must offer the person the possibility of earning a minimum livelihood. And exist in. Lagos is a city of millions. Lagos is located in the Christian South of the country. So basically we can assume that it will be possible to find a place to live there and build up new contacts. Of our own to clinton. Fatima coren has brought the case to decide or where she and a colleague are attending a meeting of integra its a network of organizations in germany that are active against f g m they include Plan InternationalAmnesty International in misery or among other aid organizations but the main topic at this annual meeting the batf. Im. Hearing can be broken off immediately if the woman says look im making an application because im afraid that i will be caught all because i have already been caught. Then the employee has to stop immediately and say im getting my superior and they will decide who will continue the hearing. Via the other whom i just said thank goodness since last year the bump is invited me for the 2nd time and more in the future to school the decision makers. And thats a good start to giving them some information about because. It. Says the banff employees often the 5 western standards when they make decisions about african families a mistake he says because africans tend to be more strongly bound up in family and tribal structures women are generally associated with the family of her husband that is the case in both christian and muslim regions in the evening he finally gets around to reading the agencys rejection of the nigerian familys application. Fetish. For the threat has been completely misrepresented in the decision either out of ignorance or out of malice and. The fact is that there is social pressure not just from the mother in law but in the entire area and ultimately in all of nigeria. So no matter where they are as long as it hasnt been wiped out and that will take decades in nigeria and the young daughters are directly at risk that they are being sent into certain danger and sooner or later a practice will take place a practice that is not allowed under german law or international law. And nish to. The gynecologist promises to send in britain comments on the rejection. 12 years ago he published a handbook for the Health System. To make gynecologists nurses and midwives more aware of the issue of female genital mutilation. As a d. V. D. How does the w h o is come up with a kind of classification based on anatomical features. Doggetts 1st group. Is covers changes made to the clearest of an art form is to provide for to us includes everything beyond that it has been done to the labia that this type 3 means the removal of the womans entire outer genitalia followed by the sewing up of the side edges of the wound so that a scar plate forms over it with a tiny millimeter sized opening. I missed in the 1. 00 to 4. 00 describes everything that is not covered by the 1st 3 categories of meaning all the other measures like burning in size ing or piercing carried out on the labia and the vagina and. Female genital mutilation takes place all around the world in african countries including egypt somalia djibouti mali and working a fast so more than 75 percent of women are affected. More than 50 percent are affected in mauritania and indonesia and the incidence is between 5 and 50 percent in many other countries in south America Africa and the middle east f t m is practiced in both muslim and christian regions. Federal corn is on her way to cologne to the academy of media arts shes come to me to film student barrel. Barrel who comes from kenya became well known after she was able to film circumcisions of boys and girls in her village in 2010 she is a korea an ethnic group at home on Lake Victoria in kenya and tanzania. This is your 1st film the cuts. Are you afraid with all those people this kind of thing frightens me of a full or against circumcision. A lot of. In addition i had a very visionary them for it by going to a circumcision. You can see that this point here is going to be circumcised because hes wearing different clothes. And it was really really terrible for me. In florida i did the filming with the women because my cameraman was not allowed to go there the saw it was so had for me to see those girls yeah and then theyre standing there waiting to be cut into. It was helpful because. It was not is for me i could reach home immediately with him at my home the next that cry but then my mother would ask me why did you decide to do something that difficult but i call it not have the reason why im cry i was crying because i saw these young guys and that i remember what i went through. And then the following day i would still go back. It was not easy but i had to tell the story this is one of my childhood stories that when i say that i will tell the story when i grow up so i didnt back down i wanted to do it you know it was hard but im happy did it. Every other year the korea carry out circumcisions on both boys and girls the tribal elders declare the cutting season open. Female genital mutilation is against the law in both kenya and tanzania so the girls are cut in secret during the boys circumcision ceremonies of. The mara region on Lake Victoria is well known to tourists who come to see masai mara and Serengeti National parks what is less known is the tradition of circumcising girls that are still practiced here its a taboo subject that is not discussed openly. The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of most soma in tanzania was one of the 1st African Church men to raise his voice against after. 3 i wondered if the valve which ina untrammeled comma known as mama regina is the Womens Affairs representative for the diocese. Where she has spent decades campaigning for the bodily integrity of girls in the region. Here the cutting has gone and you know wife is the tally