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As former executive director of Unicef, I was personally involved with efforts to end the practice of female genital cutting, so I was pleased to see progress reported ("Genital Cutting Found in Decline in Many Nations," front page, July 23).
However, the impression left of Tostan, the nongovernmental organization mentioned and quoted in the article, could be misunderstood. Despite years of failed attempts by governments and NGOs to change the religious and cultural beliefs that produced the practice, Tostan has been the only organization to achieve significant success.
In Senegal alone, more than 5,500 communities have banned genital cutting and child marriages. The report that Senegal's "support for the practice among women and girls had not noticeably declined" is not surprising when the national survey did not specifically sample Tostan villages where demonstrable progress has occurred.
Unicef and numerous other independent organizations have evaluated Tostan's work and seen significant drops in prevalence, some after 10 years. The government of Senegal expects to end genital cutting by 2015 because of Tostan.
ANN M. VENEMAN
New York, July 26, 2013
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