Female Genital Mutilation
Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION Let us imagine that the atrocious World War Ⅱ has just now swept around the whole world, and yet there are no protections of Human Rights. In a completely devastated village there are a healthy Black man, 99-year-old Caucasian woman, an Asian boy, and a Black girl waiting for their savior. Finally, a rescue worker comes but he can only take three people and can never come back, which means he has to leave one behind. If you were in this situation which of the three would you care to rescue? Since World War Ⅱ, Human Rights has been internationalized and the order of Human Rights that international society cared to protect first was on 1965, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; 1979, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women[1]; 1989, Convention on the Rights of the Child[2]. Therefore, if the rescuer were to operate his rescuing activity according only to an orderly form of the above international treaties, a black girl would have been the last one to get saved, or left behind. Some might say that as the world has become globalized and internationalized, women have acquired their rights, but the question still remains; have women truly been eliminated from all forms of discrimination? The above imaginary situation is in fact exaggerated, though upon careful scrutiny of the Human Rights matter, even nowadays Black girls are not even protected from barbaric, evil tradition; “Female Genital Mutilation[3]” (hereinafter referred to as ‘FGM’). Bearing in mind that there are around 130 million women worldwide affected by FGM (Amnesty International est.) and recognizing hundreds and thousands of girls still going through this indescribably painful act; I would like to contemplate over various issues dealt in FGM. Moreover, I will also look through a violation of the rights of the child as FGM is nearly always carried out on minors, and what actions is there that
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