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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RESOLVE, University of Saskatchewan · 24 March 2022 English

Similar to the experience of racism, homophobia/transphobia and sexism, socially constructed characteristics of disability position people with disabilities as an ‘inferior’ group to non-disabled people.” [1] Learn More: • Issue-Based …

(Sexually Transmitted Infections) and HIV/AIDS, Female Circumcision/ FGM (Female Genital Mutilation), and practices


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 May 2021 English

Cultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tension Between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the relationship between culture and human rights across Africa and offers strategies …

Books. Tierney, J. (2008). A compromise on female “circumcision. https://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes. com/ com/2008/03/19/a-compromise-on-female-circumcision/ UN. (1948). Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Paris


DDN: Dundurn Press · 2019 English

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother-and-child health in the developing world. Recounting medical missions in one-third of the forty-five countries in which she has worked for the past …

staff and students about the dan- gers of female circumcision in each school. He warned that it was against


IDRC: International Development Research Centre · 29 August 2018 English

She is a member of the Committee of Experts of the MESECVI, which oversees the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women …

Cross River State Girl-Child Marriages & Female Circumcision (Prohibition) Law (2000) just as Ogun State State enacted the Ogun State Female Circumcision & Genital Mutilation (Prohibition) Law (2000). As more


desLibris · 21 March 2017 French

« La présente brochure est destinée aux parents ou aux tuteurs. Elle traite de la maltraitance des enfants en milieu familial et répond à des questions sur les lois du …


Conseil du statut de la femme · 9 June 2016 English

Avis – La polygamie au regard du droit des femmes (version anglaise)

traditional customs damaging to women (such as female circumcision, underage marriages, forced marriages, polygamy) cultural practices (such as prostitution or female circumcision). The liberal rhetoric creates a loss of


FRHD: Freehand Books · 7 May 2016 English

Physician Richard Berringer, his wife, Ann, and their thirteen-year-old son, Torquil, have abandoned their home in Nova Scotia and moved to Sierra Leone, despite warnings that the West African country …

stayed locked together. Richard knew that female circumcision was very prevalent in Sierra Leone, and


desLibris · 22 February 2016 English

The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout the publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IOM concerning the legal status of …


National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy · 22 January 2016 English

Adapted Summary of a Public Health Ethics Framework Bernheim et al. (2009) - Ethics and the Practice of Public Health

public health goals? Ruderman, R. (2013). Female Circumcision: The LEAST INFRINGEMENT Ethics of Harm Reduction


National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy · 22 January 2016 French

Résumé adapté d’un cadre d’éthique en santé publique Bernheim et al. (2009) Ethics and the Practice of Public Health

sont-elles nécessaires Ruderman, R. (2013). Female Circumcision: The pour atteindre les objectifs? Ethics


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