Mutilated females seek help

More than 250 girls and women have sought help from Oslo's largest hospital in recent years, because of physical problems resulting from female circumcision.
The mutilation, which many of the female patients were subjected to as young girls in several Muslim African countries and Northern Iraq, has left the women with severe urinary dysfunction, infections and problems after their vaginal openings were sewn shut.

Sexual mutilation prevails

According to NRK, around 185 Norwegian-Somali girls have been sexually mutilated over the past three years. Their parents have paid to have the operation performed in Somalia.
NRK TVNews went to Somalia and interviewed 10 Somali midwives who say they have performed genital mutilation on 185 Norwegian-Somali girls.
School vacation has just started in Norway and many of the 18,000 Somalis in Norway will travel to their homeland on vacation.
This is the first time that NRK has been able to document the practice. The public broadcaster also showed evidence that also large number of girls living in other West European countries are being sexually mutilated in Somalia.
In Somalia, the operation costs around NOK 150, and is not criminal. But in Norway, sexual mutilation of children has been a crime since January 1996, also if the operation is performed abroad.