From the late seventies ad dictionary FGM)) "mutilated, penis women" was welcomed; and in 1990, the term in the third conference of the African in the case of traditional that on the health of women and children has an impact (IAC) in Addis Ababa., the Ethiopian, etc., were accepted. A year later, the World Health Organization (specialized agency under the collection Un) to the UN recommended that this term should be used. To follow this advice, the term is widely used in documents of the United Nations was used.