Female genital mutilation (FGM) exacts a crippling economic as well as human cost, according to World Health Organization (WHO).
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“残割女性生殖器不仅是对人权的灾难性侵犯,而且严重损害数百万女童和妇女的身心健康;
“FGM is not only a catastrophic abuse of human rights that significantly harms the physical and mental health of millions of girls and women; it is also a drain on a country’s vital economic resources,” said Dr Ian Askew, Director of WHO’s Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research.
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这也是对一个国家重要经济资源的消耗,”世卫组织性和生殖健康与研究司司长Ian Askew博士说。
“More investment is urgently needed to stop FGM and end the suffering it inflicts.”
New modelling reveals that the total costs of treating the health impacts of FGM would amount to USD 1.4 billion globally per year, if all resulting medical needs were addressed.
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对个别国家来说,这些费用平均将占其全年卫生支出的近10%;
For individual countries, these costs would near 10% of their entire yearly expenditure on health on average; in some countries, this figure rises to as much as 30%.
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生成这些数据的互动式建模工具是在残割女性生殖器零容忍国际日推出的。
The interactive modelling tool that generated these data was launched on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.
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对妇女和女童的身心健康造成严重影响
Severe physical and mental health impacts for women and girls