balance doesn't flower santa which as reconstructive surgery and consultation for women affected by f.p.m. . dr cornelius advices those effects and but germany services an expertise in f j m a still limited. when i studied medicine and was uncovered in the subject. but i know this is changing and i hope that trend continues but i still meet colleagues who either know very little or absolutely nothing about this and he got into this according to ted they found some sixty five thousand women affected by after living in germany an increase of twelve percent on last year. this is due to the increase in migration from countries where female genital mutilation is particularly prevalent for germany this means countries like somalia . and iraq. in a statement to deutsche avella germany's family and women's ministry described female genital mutilation as a human rights violation during this legislative period the ministry also plans on working more closely with germany's youth welfare offices but when it comes to some parents taking that young daughters back to the hung country for a so-called vac

figure husband rising for some years mainly because more migrants are coming from countries where f.p.m. is practiced i do reconstruction clinic in berlin d w correspondent kate brady met one affected woman who has joined the growing call for an end to female genital mutilation her name has been changed to protect her identity. and one has to say. i was about eleven and twelve years old several people held me down then they cut me they laid me on the table i can still picture it i had such horrific pain well sewed me together. they tied my legs together for a month because so that would heal. the head had i types of female genital mutilation very anywhere from damage in the clip to sewing up the vaginal opening in some countries the brutal practice is considered a rite of passage prerequisite for marriage. in somalia the procedure is done by your so called cutter they have no idea what they're doing they just have a knife and they come. after two and a half years in germany thirty six year old e for a c. cannot vice a flower center which offers reconstructive surgery and consultation fo

and thomas when you campaign against f.p.m. one of those sorts of obstacles that you and your colleagues face you know when you're speaking to two girls and women about this very difficult issue. well we start we found it in the more severe rock where we're usually where we're mainly working and in two thousand and four and we were fighting on two fronts one front was of course in the field to convince women and the community to stop it and to convince the local authorities to each shoe laws to forbid this practice which was quite successful in the last years and that second obstacle back then was that almost no one believed that if g.m. is so widespread in the middle east and asia so it was a very hot struggle to get the information out to convince people these does exist here we did a lot of studies and then human rights watch and others were starting to support us and finally unicef a group put iraq on the list and that was a very big step forward but unfortunately now iraq is there on as one thing goes out country and we do