Editing Guinea (section)

=== Human rights ===
{{main|Human rights in Guinea}}

[[LGBT rights in Guinea|Homosexuality]] is illegal in Guinea.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/13/here-are-the-10-countries-where-homosexuality-may-be-punished-by-death-2/ |title=Here are the 10 countries where homosexuality may be punished by death |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=16 June 2016 |access-date=21 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111064457/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/13/here-are-the-10-countries-where-homosexuality-may-be-punished-by-death-2/ |archive-date=11 November 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> The prime minister declared in 2010 that he does not consider sexual orientation a legitimate human right.<ref name='State 2011'/>

Guinea has one of the world's highest rates of [[female genital mutilation]] (FGM, sometimes referred to as 'female circumcision') according to Anastasia Gage, an associate professor at [[Tulane University]], and Ronan van Rossem, an associate professor at [[Ghent University]].<ref>{{cite journal|last2=Gage|first2=AJ|year=2009|title=The effects of female genital mutilation on the onset of sexual activity and marriage in Guinea|journal=Arch Sex Behav|volume=38|issue=2|pages=178–85|doi=10.1007/s10508-007-9237-5|pmid=17943434|last1=Van Rossem|first1=R|s2cid=40103661}}</ref> Female genital mutilation in Guinea had been performed on more than 98% of women {{As of|2009|lc=y}}.<ref name="The effects of female genital mutil">{{cite journal|last2=Gage|first2=A. J.|year=2009|title=The effects of female genital mutilation on the onset of sexual activity and marriage in Guinea|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|volume=38|issue=2|pages=178–185|doi=10.1007/s10508-007-9237-5|pmid=17943434|last1=Rossem|first1=R. V.|s2cid=40103661}}</ref> In Guinea "almost all cultures, religions, and ethnicities" practice female genital mutilation.<ref name="The effects of female genital mutil"/> The 2005 [[Demographic and Health Survey]] reported that 96% of women have gone through the operation.<ref name='State 2011'/>