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Health & Wellness News tagged with female genital mutilation

Somalia: Raising Awareness Against FGM in Puntland
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, children, prevention, protection, female genital mutilation, fgm )

Madalena
- 623 days ago - allafrica.com
Halima [not her real name], a mother of five girls, shudders whenever she remembers how she suffered after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM/Cutting), a practice still widespread in Somalia
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UNPFA Executive Director Obaid Calls On Governments To Commit To Ending Genital Cutting
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, FGM, female genital mutilation, risks, health, healthcare, children, death )

Madalena
- 678 days ago - medicalnewstoday.com
United Nations Population Fund Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid last week in Accra, Ghana, called on governments to commit to ending genital cutting -- sometimes referred to as female circumcision or female genital mutilation -- and protect the righ
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Medical Aspects of Femal Genital Mutilation/Cutting
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, female genital mutilation, female genital cutting, female circumcision )

Ab
- 756 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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UN Agencies Unveil Initiative to Reduce Female Genital Mutilation
Health & Wellness  (tags: UnitedNations, FGM/C, Female Genital Mutilation, health, children, death, doctors )

Madalena
- 842 days ago - un.org
Two United Nations agencies have launched a $44 million programme to reduce female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) by 40 per cent by 2015 and to end the harmful traditional practice within a generation.
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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
- 847 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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Surgery Helps Women Recover From Female Genital Mutilation
Health & Wellness  (tags: world, women, children, abuse, Africa, female genital mutilation, excision, surgery )

Madalena
- 860 days ago - voanews.com
Groundbreaking reconstructive surgery for women who have undergone gential mutilation is being performed in Burkina Faso.
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USA: Rites and Wrongs: Is Outlawing Female Genital Mutilation Enough to Stop It From Happening Here?
Health & Wellness  (tags: usa, government, children, FGM, female genital mutilation, United States )

Madalena
- 860 days ago - fgmnetwork.org
As part of the federal law, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attempted to gauge the prevalence of FGM in the United States. Based on some simple math -- the number of immigrants from practicing countries in the 1990 Census, ...
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Female 'Cut' Exported to Europe
Health & Wellness  (tags: world, women, female genital mutilation, fgm, children, death )

Madalena
- 860 days ago - eastandard.net
Kadra, a young Somali girl, stirred controversy in Norway in 2000. She wore a hidden camera and microphone while speaking to an Imam who tried to convince her to get circumcised
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Eritrea: Maputo Protocol and Excision
Health & Wellness  (tags: Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, Excisionwomen, world, abuse, ethics, humans )

Madalena
- 880 days ago - childsrights.org
Last April 6th, the government of Eritrea announced officially that it had prohibited on its territory the practice of excision which touches 94% of female Eritreans
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"Nkuma (Female Genital Mutilation)" - Movie Review
Health & Wellness  (tags: FGM, fgm, mutilacion, abuse, risks, women, world, children, Female Genital Mutilation )

Madalena
- 880 days ago - npwj.org
"Our approach in the tele-film is to find common ground through dispassionate dialogue between those who firmly believe that FGM is an initiation rite of passage to womanhood and those who see it as a violation of human or woman rights".
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Female Circumcision a Problem in Britain
Health & Wellness  (tags: female genital mutilation, women, girls, health, risks, FGM )

Andrea
- 901 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Female genital mutilation, commonly associated with parts of Africa and the Middle East, is becoming a growing problem in Britain despite efforts to stamp it out.
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Female Genital Cutting -- Easy to Read
Health & Wellness  (tags: Female Genital Mutilation, female circumcision, FGM, FGC, Female Genital Cutting )

Madalena
- 908 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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Excision or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, risks, healthcare, health, children, FGM, Female Genital Mutilation )

Madalena
- 915 days ago - respect-ev.org
Mainly in 28 countries in Africa. On top of that thousands of women are victim of this practice in immigrant communities in Europe, North America and Australia.
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Video Against Female Genital Mutilation
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, FGM, Female Genital Mutilation, female genital cutting )

Madalena
- 915 days ago - respect-ev.org
BEWARE, THIS VIDEO SHOWS AN EXCISION These images may shock you. It's up to you to decide if you want to watch them. ( © Inter-African Committee)
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Petition Against Female Genital Mutilation
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, risks, children, humans, death, abuse, Female Genital Mutilation )

Madalena
- 916 days ago - respect-ev.org
As either citizens or organisations, we want to express our opposition to Female Genital Mutilation. More than 3 million girls every year suffer this ignominy, and more than 150 million women live with the effects their entire life
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