Soraya Miré, Somalian human rights activist, victim of FGM: "The thing that really shocked me when I came to America was the reaction I got when people find out what was happening in those parts of the world about female genital mutilation. And people were horrified, they were shocked, they were angered; it was not even a feminist stance, it was the rights of the child, taking her humanity and integrity.

But behind closed doors they were mutilating their own young boys, sons.

And it's an everyday ritual here, but people don’t see it as a ritual. But to me it's the same thing because mutilation is mutilation. What amazed me is once she showed me a tape of a young boy, who was just born having the surgery done, exactly the same way they tied us like a goat on a table. I think all of us need to protect young children's bodily integrity."