Aussie doctors may perform FGM - report

Unicef New Zealand is concerned about reports Australian doctors are considering performing genital mutilation on baby girls, to stop back street procedures.

The practice is common among African, Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, and doctors are considering doing the procedure in a clinical setting, concerned that the razors and pieces of glass sometimes used, are unsafe.

Unicef executive director Dennis McKinlay says women have the right to have their bodies intact and the organisation would have to campaign against the proposal.

- NEWSTALK ZB