News | End FGM

27/06/2023 AkiDwA Summer Updates

In May, AkiDwA visited 2 schools and delivered presentations on FGM to a total of 160 boys and 120 girls. The organisation also recently launched the CHAIN project in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland. This launch was supported by the Cork Sexual Violence Centre and the Cork Sexual Assault Treatment Unit and attended by over 30 local migrant women.

27/06/2023 AIDOS: Summer Updates

AIDOS started the second phase of the Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs) to Ending Female Genital Mutilation project, kicking off a series of activities. Together with UNFPA, they also launched the State of the World Population 2023 report: 8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The Case for Rights and Choices.

27/06/2023 2023 Summer Updates from our amazing Ambassadors!

A glimpse into what our Ambassadors achieved this summer - as well as news on their upcoming activities!

13/04/2023 AkiDwA Graduation Ceremony

AkiDwa is hosting a special graduation ceremony for a cohort of women seeking asylum in Ireland, who have been undertaking capacity-building training with AkiDwA over the past few months. The capacity-building training itself has involved a group of thirty-four women who are residing in four Emergency Accommodation Centres in Dublin.

12/04/2023 Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies: attending NGO CSW67 events

Our colleagues from the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, Susana Elisa Pavlou (Director) and Christina Kaili (Senior Researcher - Project Coordinator) participated as panellists at two events of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) organised by the American University of Beirut, the Asfari Institute and the Debs Center, New York Office.

12/04/2023 LESSAN's: role-playing game for stopping GBV & advocacy meetings

The project "Men Standing-up for Gender Equality - Amplifying Change" has reached the next phase and taken two important steps in the fight against gender-based violence and FGM/C. Together with the project partners Femme Entraide et Autonomie in Paris and Himilo in Amsterdam, Lessan e.V. in Hamburg has developed a role-playing game.

12/04/2023 Les Orchidées Rouges: inauguration of a new medical centre & awareness-raising events

With the occasion of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, Les Orchidées Rouges inaugurated their new medico-psychosocial institute in the Lyon metropolitan area, which is the first socio-therapeutic support structure for women and girls threatened or survivors of excision and/or forced marriage in that region of France.

12/04/2023 FSAN: working manual for GBV prevention

This manual produced by FSAN concerns the working method for the key persons working to stop FGM and other harmful practices.

12/04/2023 TERRE DES FEMMES - "Join our Chain" kick-off meeting in Berlin

12/04/2023 FSAN: International Women's Day event

On International Women's Day in 2023, FSAN organised an afternoon of activities, especially for the women of Rijswijk. The event was attended by Mayor Huri Sahin.