Female Circumcision

Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and within communities from countries in which FGM is common. UNICEF estimated in 2016 that 200 million women living today in 30 countries—27 African countries, Indonesia, Iraqi Kurdistan and Yemen—have undergone the procedures.Typically carried out by a traditional circumciser using a blade, FGM is conducted from days after birth to puberty and beyond. In half of the countries for which national …

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MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 29 February 2024 English

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MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 29 February 2024 English

Indeed, the establishment of Israel, that State’s conduct and the response of the Peace Settlement in Eastern Europe at the end of the First World Arab world and the Palestinians, …

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MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 29 February 2024 English

The coastal strip is the first decade of this century, in the last phase of the German colonial low-lying Namib desert and it is washed by the chilly waters of …

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MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 31 January 2024 English

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No. 47 MINORITY RIGHTS Price £1.20 GROUP FEMALE CIRCUMCISION, EXCISION AND INFIBULATION: the facts and - Esther Ogunmodede 17 Working group on female circumcision - Isabelle Tevoedjre 18 Sudan - the longest put up by the child.' misleading term, 'female circumcision'. This description, by M.A.S. Mustafa, is had more than one wife, Asma A.El-Dareer. Female circumcision and its consequences for of whom only one notably Ethiopia, people believe case of female circumcision. Even the often quoted saying of Prophet


UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund · 24 January 2024 English

level: Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights; Article 4 of the American Convention on Human 2 WHO, 2008 Rights; Article 4(a) of the Convention of Belem do …

referring to “female genital mutilation”, “female circumcision”43 The definition should encompass all possible Prohibition Act 2015 Section 6 – Prohibition of female circumcision or genital mutilation (4) A person who incites


APHRC: Africa Population Health Research Center · 9 January 2024 English

APHRC’s commitment to the protection of children is premised on international standards established by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Laws in the countries where …

subjected or is likely to be subjected to female circumcision or early marriage or to customs and practices


World Bank Group · 3 January 2024 English

as male pre-eminence, practice of dowry; female circumcision and acts of direct violence (rape, wife-beating


ARROW: Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women · 17 December 2023 English

mutilation” conclusions cannot be made on the impact of FGC on (FGM) to the Malaysian practice of “female circumcision.. [...] In a study of ten adult female cadavers,13 part of the clitoral body is the clitoral

accurate information on the practice of female circumcision in Malaysia to The Malaysian Doctors for https://twitter.com/endfgmcasia CONTENTS 4 WHAT IS FEMALE CIRCUMCISION? 4 THE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY 6 THE FEMALE EXTERNAL UNVEILING THE HARMS OF FEMALE CIRCUMCISION IN MALAYSIA PAGE 4 WHAT IS FEMALE CIRCUMCISION? (FGC) according producing a small piece of teased-out tissue Female circumcision in Malaysia and several other typically given invoke the term should be characterised as female circumcision. “mutilation.” However, it is important to


World Bank Group · 22 November 2023 English

also known as female genital cutting, and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some


Catholic Social Services Australia · 14 November 2023 English

services each organisation offers, the number of Participants in the interviews came from a range of hours their staff contribute to the issue, the level of members of the project …

rewards and this violence still includes female circumcision, dowry CHALLENGE: LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF


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