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Female Genital Mutilation I was cut
By Reem Jamiel, June 7, 2012 When my mom told me that we were going out, I was thrilled, which was unlike me, given that I was a shy six-year-old who dreaded meeting new people. My mother, grandmother, aunt, cousin, Sahar, and I piled in the car and drove to the village clinic where my […]
Tide is Turning Against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
May 24, 2012
22 May 20122011 Annual Report documents accelerating progress In the past, almost all Somali girls were cut. But the Joint Programme aims to change that for the next generation. For centuries, female genital mutilation or cutting has been practiced throughout much of Africa. But dealing as it does with a very intimate subject, FGM/C was […]
Female circumcision anger aired in India #FGM
April 27, 2012
Reblogged from kractivist By Rupam Jain Nair | AFP – Tue, Apr 24, 2012 AFP Eleven years ago, Farida Bano was circumcised by an aunt on a bunk bed in her family home at the end of her 10th birthday party. The mutilation occurred not in Africa, where the practice is most prevalent, but in […]
100,000 women undergo genital mutilation in Britain and some are 10 -year-olds
April 23, 2012
Reblogged from kracktivist London, April 23 2012, by Pamela Owen, Dalily Mail As many as 100,000 women in Britain have undergone female genital mutilations with medics in the UK offering to carry out the illegal procedure on girls as young as 10, it has been reported. Investigators from The Sunday Times said they secretly filmed […]
Fistula – Another Blight on the Child Bride
April 20, 2012
By Zofeen Ebrahim Bano and her cleric husband campaigning against child marriage. Credit:Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS KARACHI, Pakistan, Apr 13, 2012 (IPS) – It was personal experience that turned Gul Bano and her cleric husband, Ahmed Khan, into ambassadors against early marriage and its worst corollary – obstetric fistula which allows excretory matter to flow out through […]
Where Men Now Fear to Tread
April 4, 2012
By Hannah Rubenstein No man, except for those raised here as children, lives in Umoja village in Kenya. Credit:Hannah Rubenstein/IPS UMOJA, Kenya, Apr 4, 2012 (IPS) – No man, except for those raised here as children, lives in Umoja village in Kenya; one has not for two decades. It is a village only of and […]
Fears of female genital mutilation revival in Egypt
April 2, 2012
Posted on 02 April 2012. Auveen WoodsWVoN co-editor Azza El Garf, a prominent member of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of just 11 female parliamentarians in Egypt, has publicly denounced the 2008 ban on genital cutting (or female genital cutting, ‘FGM’) for Egyptian women. “It is […]
Silent Scream
March 13, 2012
A short film by Integrate Bristol in partnership with Zed Productions This film was shown on 30th June 2011 at The Watershed Bristol. SILENT SCREAM is a drama-documentary made by 27 young women who attend schools in the Bristol area. Its primary aim is to persuade the communities that the practice of female genital […]
Fact Sheet: U.S. Work for Abandonment of Female Cutting
February 22, 2012
18 February 2012 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson February 18, 2012 2011/254 FACT SHEET The U.S. Government Working for the Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a traditional practice that ranges from nicking to total removal of the external female genitalia. An estimated 100 to 145 million women […]
UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme for the Acceleration of the Abandonment of FGM/C
February 10, 2012
UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme for the Acceleration of the Abandonment of FGM/C
My battle against female genital cutting
February 6, 2012
If China can get rid of footbinding, Africa can get rid of genital cutting – and Senegal might be on track to do just that Sister Fa guardian.co.uk, Monday 6 February 2012 Girls from a community that has abandoned FGC Photograph: Orchid Project/Julia Lalla-Maharajh I have been very lucky in my life. My music and […]
Women Expose Secret Genital Cutting Rite
January 30, 2012
PAKISTAN-INDIABy Zofeen Ebrahim A Bohra woman in traditional costume. Credit:Fahim Siddiqi/IPS KARACHI, Jan 30, 2012 (IPS) – “It was a dark and dingy room, where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties, made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did something…I screamed out in pain,” […]
Women Expose Secret Genital Cutting Rite
January 30, 2012
PAKISTAN-INDIABy Zofeen Ebrahim A Bohra woman in traditional costume. Credit:Fahim Siddiqi/IPS KARACHI, Jan 30, 2012 (IPS) – “It was a dark and dingy room, where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties, made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did something…I screamed out in pain,” […]
IRAQ: New research highlights link between FGM/C and mental disorders
January 13, 2012
Photo: Petit1ze/FlickrEstimates of the prevalence of FGM/C in Iraqi Kurdistan vary greatly DUBAI, 13 January 2012 (IRIN) – New data out of Iraq shows what many psychologists suspected though little research has confirmed: Girls who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) are more prone to mental disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Results of the […]
Researchers compare non-medical vaginal surgery to genital mutilation
August 25, 2011
Posted on 24 August 2011 Vaginal reconstruction surgery that is carried out even when medically unnecessary is similar to the female genital mutilation carried out predominantly in Africa, say researchers at the Elizabeth Garret Anderson Hospital in London. This claim comes after a study published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology found that […]
Researchers compare non-medical vaginal surgery to genital mutilation
August 25, 2011
Posted on 24 August 2011 Vaginal reconstruction surgery that is carried out even when medically unnecessary is similar to the female genital mutilation carried out predominantly in Africa, say researchers at the Elizabeth Garret Anderson Hospital in London. This claim comes after a study published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology found that […]
The Roxbury International Film Festival fighting against gender mutilation
July 28, 2011
Melissa Santos, Boston Feminism Examiner July 27, 2011 The Desert FlowerCredits: http://afrolumi.blogspot.com/2010/12/waris-dirie-fgm.html In 1965, Waris Dirie was born in a small region of Somalia called Gallcaio. A victim of genital mutilation and a forced marriage to an older man, she decided to flee from her country and found herself working in London at a local […]
The Roxbury International Film Festival fighting against gender mutilation
July 28, 2011
Melissa Santos, Boston Feminism Examiner July 27, 2011 The Desert FlowerCredits: http://afrolumi.blogspot.com/2010/12/waris-dirie-fgm.html In 1965, Waris Dirie was born in a small region of Somalia called Gallcaio. A victim of genital mutilation and a forced marriage to an older man, she decided to flee from her country and found herself working in London at a local […]
Iraqi Kurdistan: Law Banning FGM a Positive Step
July 27, 2011
Bill Shows Commitment to End Violence Against WomenJuly 25, 2011 Many women and girls in Iraq’s Kurdish region are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). A new report from Human Rights Watch says the local government isn’t doing enough to stop this dangerous and debilitating practice. With HRW’s Samer Muscati and a report from the […]
Iraqi Kurdistan: Law Banning FGM a Positive Step
July 27, 2011
Bill Shows Commitment to End Violence Against WomenJuly 25, 2011 Many women and girls in Iraq’s Kurdish region are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). A new report from Human Rights Watch says the local government isn’t doing enough to stop this dangerous and debilitating practice. With HRW’s Samer Muscati and a report from the […]
Female genital mutilation laws to be toughened against families
July 23, 2011
Ministers send prosecutors new guidelines against families who send young girls abroad to undergo the brutal procedure ‘I will never be cut’: Kenyan girls fight back against genital mutilation – video Hugh Muir guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 July 2011 New guidelines to target families that take young girls abroad to undergo female genital mutilation are being […]
Female genital mutilation laws to be toughened against families
July 23, 2011
Ministers send prosecutors new guidelines against families who send young girls abroad to undergo the brutal procedure ‘I will never be cut’: Kenyan girls fight back against genital mutilation – video Hugh Muir guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 July 2011 New guidelines to target families that take young girls abroad to undergo female genital mutilation are being […]
Ireland introduces bill criminalising female genital mutilation
July 20, 2011
Tuesday, 19th July 2011A new bill has been passed in Ireland which criminalises the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). The minister for health in the country, Dr James Reilly, explained that FGM is a “gross violation of women’s human rights”, reports the Irish Times. He added that the new legislation will act as the […]
A clear framework for tackling female genital mutilation
July 13, 2011
Lettersguardian.co.uk, Tuesday 12 July 2011 21.00 BST It was refreshing to read the article by Hugh Muir on the approach to female genital mutilation in the UK (Hideously diverse Britain, 5 July). I have worked on FGM in Britain for around 30 years, helping to put it on the agenda, establishing an organisation that works […]
Legislation failing to curb FGM/C
June 3, 2011
Photo: IRINLaws against FGM/C have driven the practice underground NYAMATARO, 2 June 2011 (IRIN) – At her grandmother’s home in the western Kenyan village of Nyamataro, 14-year-old Ruth* lies on a mat surrounded by visitors, all congratulating her on becoming a woman; the previous week, Ruth was one of 10 girls to undergo female genital […]
Gender issues - Human rights 
June 8, 2012
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