mutilation

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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

The Gambia's Supreme Court began hearing a case this week brought by religious traditionalists who are hoping to topple the country's poorly enforced ban on female genital mutilation.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

He said: "The Trump administration will not allow these human rights violations, such as the mutilation of children, laws that infringe on free speech, and racially discriminatory employment practices, to go unchecked."

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

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

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