The average age of excision is 9.4 years. The most commonly employed form of excision is simple cutting (46.3 per cent), followed by the more severe form (24.4 per cent).

In thus truncating and trivializing the ongoing ICT revolution, Gordon misses two fundamental processes.

Technologies like MRI can help in surgical planning, resection control, and quality assurance.

Before amputation, there were five distinct areas, one corresponding to each digit of the experimental hand.

Arm amputation is usually caused by trauma, with things like industrial accidents, motor vehicle collisions or, very poignantly, war.

The campaigns to have women and excisors turn in their ceremonial cutting knives, in Kouroussa (6 November 1999), Kérouané (2 June 2000), Conakry (10 May 2001) and Mamou (2002).

With regard to the costs of amputation surgery, the Panel considers that Kuwait's estimate is not reasonable since it is based on the average cost of surgery at the Mubarak Al Kabeer Hospital, which is higher than the average cost at the Al Razi Hospital, where the surgery was actually performed.

The Paralympics, just for a little bit of clarification, are the Olympics for people with physical disabilities amputees, persons with cerebral palsy, and wheelchair athletes as opposed to the Special Olympics, which deals with people with mental disabilities.

When I looked at the case sheet, I found that they had an actual arm, and the nerves supplying the arm had been cut, and the actual arm had been paralyzed, and lying in a sling for several months before the amputation, and this pain then gets carried over into the phantom itself.

In his statement, he addressed continuing occurrences of the practice of corporal punishment, such as amputation, stoning, flogging and beating, surveyed the jurisprudence of international and regional human rights mechanisms, and concluded that any form of corporal punishment is contrary to the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

For example, any social history will reveal that mutilation and torture were routine forms of criminal punishment. The kind of infraction today that would give you a fine, in those days would result in your tongue being cut out, your ears being cut off, you being blinded, a hand being chopped off and so on.

Anyway, we arrived, and when we arrived, there were hundreds of girls dressed in red, homemade dresses which is the color of the Masai and the color of V Day and they greeted us, and they had made up these songs that they were singing about the end of suffering, and the end of mutilation, and they walked us down the path.