![End FGM EU Director moderates High Level Panel Discussion of the Human Rights Council](/img-cache/Screen-Shot-2021-06-23-at-10.32.35.385fa788.e925d17f.png)
End FGM EU Director, Anna Widegren moderated the High-level panel discussion of the Human Rights Council on the prevention of and response to female genital mutilation, in Geneva.
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Understanding Community Voices is a project that will attempt to showcase the work done by activists and members of community-centred organisations.
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Since September 2019, the project partners Lessan e.V., Femmes Entraide et Autonomie and TERRE DES FEMMES have been working within the framework of the EU co-funded project "Men Standing Up for Gender Equality" for the long-term overcoming of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and child, early and forced marriage (CEFM). A total of 30 men from affected communities in Hamburg, Paris and Berlin were trained as multipliers against gender-based violence.
More![Our recommendations to the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union](/img-cache/gre.6983104a.e925d17f.png)
Every new presidency of the Council of the European Union, End FGM European Network sends our recommendations on different issues that are linked to FGM and Gender Equality.
More![Submission of GREVIO Joint Shadow Reports: Cyprus and Switzerland](/img-cache/EN_10years-banner.09adb67b.44b1cf60.jpg)
Together with our Cypriot member, the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS), and our Swiss member, the Network against FGC Switzerland, we have submitted two shadow reports to GREVIO, in order to highlight the current situation and propose concrete recommendations on the issue of prevention, protection, prosecution and integrated policies on female genital mutilation in Cyprus. While this report focuses only on the harmful practice of FGM, its aim is not to single it out in isolation, but to put emphasis on it while placing it within the continuum of gender-based violence against women and girls.
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The TuWezeshe Akina Dada is an international program which seeks to nurture a generation of young women from FGM-affected communities [Fellows] into effective leaders in the campaign against FGM. The TuWezeshe Fellowship incorporates a bespoke leadership training for women from FGM-affected communities aged 18-30 years who have a keen interest in research and FGM advocacy and are based in Europe. APPLY NOW!
More![End FGM EU joins forces with other civil society organisations in defence of the Istanbul Convention](/img-cache/Open-Letters-to-President-Banner-2-.be9fd412.e925d17f.png)
The End FGM European Network, together with a number of other European and national organisations, expresses its deepest concern for worrying trends in Turkey and Poland concerning potential withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention.
More![Ambassadors Update: 1st quarter of 2021!](/img-cache/istockphoto-1192285342-170667a.be3848fd.44b1cf60.jpg)
Our Ambassadors have been busy these past months, taking part in international events and in End FGM EU's activities.
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End FGM EU was part of the EU Delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women which took place in March. Also, along with partners of the Global Platform for Action to end FGM/C, we hosted a CSW65 side event on partnerships to end FGM.
More![End FGM EU participation to FGM international congress of Medicos del Mundo](/img-cache/LOGO-CASTELLANO-PNG-1-.73fd4c9c.e925d17f.png)
End FGM EU was invited on 13 February, around the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, to deliver the closing remarks at the International Congress on Female Genital Mutilation organized by our member Médicos del Mundo.
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