Olivier Asselin photography

BURKINA FASO FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

Mariam Banemanie Traor?, 54, a victim of female genital mutilation who had her clitoris surgically restored three years ago, poses for a portrait in Bobo-Dioulasso, 365 kilometres west of Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Monday May 4, 2009. "Women deserve pleasure", she says, "and they also deserve dignity."

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Mariam Banemanie Traor?, 54, a victim of female genital mutilation who had her clitoris surgically restored three years ago, poses for a portrait in Bobo-Dioulasso, 365 kilometres west of Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Monday May 4, 2009. "Women deserve pleasure", she says, "and they also deserve dignity."