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Inside Europe: New ways of tackling female genital mutilation

Across the EU, an estimated half-million or more females have undergone female genital mutilation, or FGM. Experts say immigration is driving up the number of these cases, for example in France, which has one of Europe’s highest incidences. But in the Parisian suburb of Saint Denis, there are new efforts to tackle the problem holistically. Lisa Bryant reports.