UNICEF estimates that roughly 200 million women and girls across the globe have been subjected to female genital mutilation. In The Gambia, the practice was outlawed in 2015, a sign that decadeslong efforts to put an end to the practice are working. But, as Alexa Dvorson reports from The Gambia, changing laws is one thing; changing minds is much harder.
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