GAMS Belgium launched a national awareness campaign to prevent female genital mutilation during summer holidays on May 23rd. The organisation welcomed Halimata Fofana, an inspirational author who has just published her second novel “À l’ombre de la cite Rimbaud”.
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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.
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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.
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A glimpse into what our Ambassadors achieved this summer - as well as news on their upcoming activities!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This manual produced by FSAN concerns the working method for the key persons working to stop FGM and other harmful practices.
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