KUALA LUMPUR: Putrajaya has reaffirmed its stand that female circumcision is part of Malaysian culture.
The statement came following a flare-up when on Nov 9, Malaysian delegates to the Universal Periodic Review on human rights in Geneva, Switzerland, defended the practice of infant female circumcision as a “cultural obligation” in Malaysia.
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