mutilation

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Those who suffered torture and other acts of mutilation will receive individualised rehabilitation programmes, it added.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

Halfway through college, Russell spent two months in Tanzania assisting a nonprofit that taught female genital mutilation survivors how to make clothes to support themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

It inspired his themes—war, fear, mutilation, endurance, courage, comradeship and death—and his laconic and stoical, virile and aggressive heroes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

In that interview, and in others, Amos also mentioned Alice Walker's novel "Possessing the Secret of Joy," and female genital mutilation as influencing the song.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023

Irmgard gazed fixedly at the TV screen, and Pris had ceased her mutilation of the spider.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick