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World News tagged with FGM

Sign Petition: End Domestic Violence in the Muslim World
World  (tags: world, middle-east, sharia, law, africa, muslim, domestic, violence, humiliation, beatings, mutilation, flogging, rape, honor, killing, stoning, acid, attacks, FGM, lashes, women, girls, human, rights, freedom, abuse, cruelty )

Tom
- 110 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Assaults on women and young girls, especially domestic violence, acid attacks, honor killings, FGM and forced marriage that have become a growing problem in some Muslim countries, are barbaric, inhumane and completely contrary to Islamic teachings.
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Sign Petition: International Coalition for Women's Rights
World  (tags: society, culture, world, muslim, sharia, law, domestic, violence, humiliation, beatings, mutilation, flogging, rape, honor, killing, stoning, acid, attacks, FGM, lashes, women, children, human, rights, freedom, abuse, cruelty )

Tom
- 110 days ago - petitiononline.com
Sharia law deems a woman unequal and subordinate to her husband. Under Sharia, women's testimony is worth half that of men's, women have limited rights to divorce and child custody and women can be executed for apostasy or stoned to death for adultery.
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Pakistan Moves to Outlaw Domestic Violence
World  (tags: world, middle-east, pakistan, muslim, domestic, violence, humiliation, beatings, mutilation, flogging, rape, honor, killing, stoning, acid, attacks, FGM, lashes, women, girls, human, rights, freedom, abuse, cruelty )

Tom
- 110 days ago - google.com
Pakistan moved towards outlawing domestic violence when lawmakers approved a bill Tuesday that will punish those found guilty of beating women or children with jail terms and fines. The law, passed unanimously, was called a "big day" for Pakistani women.
9 comments
BORN IN THE BIG RAINS - A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
World  (tags: women, children, risks, fgm, FGM, violence, africa, crime, deaths, europe )

Madalena
- 777 days ago - readinggroupchoices.com
This autobiographical book traces Fadumo's life from Somalia as a child where she was subjected to FGM, to her arrival in Germany, and eventual campaign against FGM. It's a gripping book, full of sadness, tears, and many laughters as Korn shares ...
9 comments
21,000 Girls at Risk of Genital Mutilation, Say Campaigners
World  (tags: England, Wales, genital mutilation, fgm, risks, women, abuse, alert, children )

Madalena
- 777 days ago - guardian.co.uk
More than 21,000 girls under 15 in England and Wales are estimated to be at serious risk of being forced into genital mutilation and a further 11,000 over-eights are highly likely already to have been subjected to the practice, according to research.
9 comments
Fgmnetwork - Help Us Come Up With a New Name -
World  (tags: FGM, Support )

Madalena
- 794 days ago - fgmnetwork.org
Show your support and your creativity by suggesting a new name for the site. This is really not a contest, but if your entry is chosen, we'll put it on the site's logo, any future publications, and products, and you will be given full credit.
5 comments
The Beginning of the End, No to Female Circumcision.
World  (tags: women, children, health, FGM, propaganda, africa, GoodNews )

Madalena
- 794 days ago - fgmnetwork.org
Foes of female circumcision gain support: Subject is no longer taboo in Egypt, where 96% of women have had procedure A nationwide campaign to stop the practice has become one of the most powerful social movements in Egypt in decades, uniting an unlikely
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I Was Born Woman!
World  (tags: africa, women, violence, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', crime, FGM )

Madalena
- 794 days ago - kabiza.com
Africa and women; on the one hand they are the matriarchs of society, simply because they outlive men, on the other hand on their way to getting to be the matriarch, the journey is strewn with pain, tears, sweat, abuse, shame based communication
2 comments
Cautious Criticism - A Growing Number Of Activists Are Hesitant To Decry Female Genital Mutilation
World  (tags: world, women, FGM, FGC, deaths, crime, children )

Madalena
- 810 days ago - canada.com
Academia's fixation on cultural sensitivity is changing the debate around female genital mutilation, with a growing number of professors and women's rights activists becoming hesitant to condemn the practice
8 comments
African Aid Group Wins Hilton Prize For Campaigning Against Female Circumcision
World  (tags: world, woman, children, africa, GoodNews, Female Circumcision, FGM, Female genital mutilation )

Madalena
- 828 days ago - allheadlinenews.com
New York (AHN) - A Senegal-based aid group has won the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation prize this year for its campaign against female circumcision in West Africa.
2 comments
Norway Grants NOK 20 Million Against Sex Mutilation
World  (tags: female genital mutilation, children’s fundamental human rights, UnitedNations, fgm )

Madalena
- 828 days ago - norwaypost.no
International Development Minister Erik Solheim has announced that Norway will contribute NOK 20 million (appr. USD 3,5 million) to a UN fund to protect girls against genital mutilation in 16 countries.
1 comment
Kenya: Working Towards a Better Humanity
World  (tags: FGM, government, women, torture, crime, deaths, ethics, HumanRights, violence, world )

Barb
- 847 days ago - allafrica.com
Bukachi says Eassi has also joined the anti-Female Genital Mutilation campaign. FGM is rampant in the region, save for Rwanda and Burundi. 'In Eritrea over 80 per cent of the communities practise FGM, and the number is higher in Somalia,' she says......>
4 comments
Female Genital Mutilation: A Mothering Exclusive Report
World  (tags: children, women, violence, HumanRights, FGM, genital integrity )

Lauren
- 930 days ago - mothering.com
Being the change you want to see in the world has an antonym: apathy. The "new earnestness" seems to be where we are going as a culture...and I'm right there with it.Taking on FGM 2007 By Candace Walsh
7 comments
A Testimony on Female Genital Mutilation in India
World  (tags: FGM, FGC, India, girls, women, human rights, mutilation, abuse )

Lauren
- 937 days ago - stopfgmc.org
"I hope you will publish this letter to let others know that women suffer greatly from this practice,not only in Africa,but in other countries.Women need to break the silence,support one another in this effort so our daughters will have brighter futures"
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