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Health & Wellness News tagged with Female Circumcision

Medical Aspects of Femal Genital Mutilation/Cutting
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, female genital mutilation, female genital cutting, female circumcision )

Ab
- 728 days ago - travellingspouse.blogspot.com
The immediate and long term consequences of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) - a resume from medical journals.
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Female Circumcision Hurts Women's Dignity
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, Female circumcision, female genital mutilation, world, abuse, children, risks, humans, health, ethics, freedoms )

Madalena
- 819 days ago - newvision.co.ug
The right to life and physical integrity are considered core human rights. These rights, while often associated with the right to freedom from torture, encompass a number of broader human rights principles, including the inherent dignity of the person,
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Female Circumcision: Rite of Passage Or Violation of Rights?
Health & Wellness  (tags: fgm, Female Circumcision, mutilacion, women, world, ethics, family, abuse, children, humans )

Madalena
- 853 days ago - guttmacher.org
Female circumcision is an integral part of the societies that practice it, where patriarchal authority and control of female sexuality and fertility are givens.Efforts to eliminate female circumcision have often been unsuccessful because opponents ...
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Female Genital Cutting -- Easy to Read
Health & Wellness  (tags: Female Genital Mutilation, female circumcision, FGM, FGC, Female Genital Cutting )

Madalena
- 880 days ago - 4woman.gov
The WHO and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, along with several African and Asian nations, have called for an end to the practice of FGC. The WHO views the practice as a violent act against a girl that causes her serious lifetime consequence
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Girl Dies Undergoing Female Genital Mutilation
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, female genital cutting, Female Genital Mutilation, female circumcision )

Ab
- 888 days ago - travellingspouse.blogspot.com
The death of an Egyptian girl prompts both Muslim and Christian leaders to condemn the practice of female genital mutilation. An Egyptian doctor writes in The Lancet to say that this is the best way to change minds.
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FGM INTERCULTURAL SOCIETY
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, risks, children, alert, FGM, education, female circumcision )

Madalena
- 892 days ago - freewebs.com
PROJECT HARGEISA - A GROUNDBREAKING IDEA TO STOP FGM
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Female Circumcision Surfaces in Iraq
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, children, risks, death, Middle East, Female circumcision )

Madalena
- 892 days ago - csmonitor.com
A German aid group finds the first solid proof of the practice, thought to be prevalent in the Middle East.
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A Woman's Approach to Ending a Perilous Rite of Passage
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, children, death, alert, risks, FGM, female circumcision )

Madalena
- 892 days ago - csmonitor.com
Eunice Sitatian Kaelo was proud to be circumcised when she was 15. Despite the pain of the procedure, she says she respected the ceremony that brought her Masai community together to celebrate her passage to adulthood
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