Will the EU help end FGM?

As a young girl in Guinea, Aissatou Diallo couldn't save herself. She was 14 and six people were holding her down while a seventh cut her. Somalian Ifrah Ahmed couldn't even comprehend what was happening to her. She was only 8 years old and there were people holding her arms and legs. She had no anesthesia of any kind before or after, just raw agony and then the 40 days of isolation imposed on newly circumcised girls. Five years later, inexplicably, they did it to her again. Diallo and Ahmed are just two of the estimated 140 million women girls and women worldwide who have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). But unlike the vast majority of girls unable to fight back either during the procedure or after, these women are defying it now–and demanding the rest of the world do the same.