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| Isis 'orders female genital mutilation' for women in Mosul | Isis 'orders female genital mutilation' for women in Mosul |
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| The UN says militant Islamist group Isis has ordered all women and girls in Mosul, northern Iraq, to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM). | The UN says militant Islamist group Isis has ordered all women and girls in Mosul, northern Iraq, to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM). |
| UN official Jacqueline Badcock said the fatwa, or religious edict, applied to females between the ages of 11 and 46. | UN official Jacqueline Badcock said the fatwa, or religious edict, applied to females between the ages of 11 and 46. |
| She said the unprecedented decree issued by the Islamists in control of the city was of grave concern. | She said the unprecedented decree issued by the Islamists in control of the city was of grave concern. |
| Iraq is facing a radical Isis-led Sunni insurgency, with cities in the north-west under militant control. | Iraq is facing a radical Isis-led Sunni insurgency, with cities in the north-west under militant control. |
| The ritual cutting of girls' genitals is practised by some African, Middle Eastern and Asian communities in the belief it prepares them for adulthood or marriage. | The ritual cutting of girls' genitals is practised by some African, Middle Eastern and Asian communities in the belief it prepares them for adulthood or marriage. |
| 'Four million' | |
| The UN General Assembly approved a resolution in December 2012 calling for all member states to ban the practice. | The UN General Assembly approved a resolution in December 2012 calling for all member states to ban the practice. |
| The Isis edict could affect nearly four million women and girls in and around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the UN warns. | |
| Ms Badcock, the UN's resident and humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, said the practice "is something very new for Iraq... and does need to be addressed". | |
| She was talking to reporters via video link from the Kurdish provincial capital of Irbil. | |
| "This is not the will of Iraqi people, or the women of Iraq in these vulnerable areas covered by the terrorists," she added. | "This is not the will of Iraqi people, or the women of Iraq in these vulnerable areas covered by the terrorists," she added. |
| Isis militants seized Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, in June, and have since taken over areas of the north-west and closed in on cities near Baghdad. | Isis militants seized Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, in June, and have since taken over areas of the north-west and closed in on cities near Baghdad. |
| The order came as Isis asserts its power in northern Iraq and expands in Syria, imposing radical Islamic practices, says the BBC's Lina Sinjab. | |
| Isis forced Christians in Mosul out of the city earlier this week and daubed their houses with the Arabic letter N to mark them out as Christians, apparently confiscating their properties, our correspondent adds. | |
| Ms Badcock said only 20 families from the ancient Christian minority now remain in Mosul, which Isis has taken as the capital of its Islamic state. | |
| Thousands have fled into Kurdish-controlled territory in the north. | |
| Some of the Christians who remained have converted to Islam, while others have opted to stay and pay the "jiyza", the tax imposed by Isis on non-Muslims, the UN official added. | |
| Isis announced last month that it was creating an Islamic caliphate covering the land it holds in Iraq and Syria. |