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31/08/2021 AkidwA - Awareness Raising Events

AkiDwa has been active during the past 6 months, organising fundraising events, online events and webinars and other activities to keep raising awareness and providing support services.

31/08/2021 UNAF - One Step beyond: 'Urgent agenda against FGM

UNAF dedicated this year’s International Conference to summarise the progress made, to create more awareness and to debate on the key policies and measures needed to advance the promotion of Women and Girl's rights. The event was held online and counted with the participation of international panelists and more than 200 participants.

31/08/2021 Chain project second consortium meeting and Community trainers introductions

On June 22nd and 23rd , 2021, the second consortium meeting of the two-year EU project CHAIN took place. On Instagram, Terre des Femmes introduced Isatou, Muhammed, Habiba and Clément, all CHAIN community trainers.

31/08/2021 MIGS - Findings of the ARTEMIS research study in Cyprus and 4 EU countries

As part of the ARTEMIS Project, our member, the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) together with its partners produced a final research report on the implementation of the European Protection Order in 5 European countries.

31/08/2021 GAMS - New French & Dutch versions of the guide “Genital mutilation: addressing common myths and misconceptions”

This guide addresses 13 myths and misconceptions often heard by the field teams in the course of their work: the origin and geographical prevalence of the people concerned, victimisation, sexuality, barbarism, religion, genital cosmetic surgery, medicalisation, circumcision, episiotomy, intersex genital mutilation...

31/08/2021 APF - End FGM Youth Ambassadors in Portuguese Parliament

Fatucha Banora and Ana So, were invited as Young Ambassadors of the End FGM European Network to the Subcommittee for Equality and Non-Discrimination, hold on June 1st, with a joint hearing of various entities on the subject of female genital mutilation, to talk about their work and the difficulties experienced in combating this harmful practice.

31/08/2021 AIDOS - “Building Bridges” between Africa and Europe to stop FGM

In April and May, AIDOS produced and launched two animated videos in the framework of the “Building Bridges between Africa and Europe to tackle FGM” project. These are the last two in a series of four that tries to answer to questions such as What is female genital mutilation? What is a social norm? What is gender inequality?

31/08/2021 Coming soon: the CHAIN Awareness-Raising Campaign

In October, the Chain consortium will be launching its awareness-raising campaign aimed at convincing practising communities to give up FGM and Early and Forced Marriage.

31/08/2021 End FGM EU Director moderates High Level Panel Discussion of the Human Rights Council

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.

31/08/2021 Understanding Community Voices Project

Understanding Community Voices is a project that will attempt to showcase the work done by activists and members of community-centred organisations.