This section offers a collection of key resource material related to the practice of FGM and the existing frameworks developed to end the practice and protect affected women and girls. It is aimed for activists, lawyers, policy makers, government officials, civil society actors, researchers and anyone else who wants to investigate the issue of FGM in detail.
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This Policy Statement condemns the practice of FGM as a violation of human rights and highlights the important role of health care professionals in contributing towards its eradication.
More Article by Pierre Foldès, Béatrice Cuzin and Armelle Andro in the medical journal The Lancet.
More This Amnesty International report addresses the various factors including harmful traditional practices like FGM and their impact on the health of pregnant women and mothers in Sierra Leone.
More Left Without a Choice: Barriers to reproductive health in Indonesia describes how government restrictions and discriminatory traditions threaten the lives of many Indonesian woman and girls by putting reproductive health services beyond their reach.
More The Global strategy to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation was developed by UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIFEM, WHO, FIGO, ICN, IOM, MWIA, WCPT and WMA.
More This is the final report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, set up by the World Health Organization to organize the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity, and to foster a global movement to achieve it.
More General Comment No. 14 is an explanatory note on the necessary elements for the fulfillment of the right to the highest attainable standard of health (article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights).
More This report by Amnesty International was released on occasion of the forthcoming 20-year review of the implementation of the Program of Action at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994.
More This report by Amnesty International addresses the causes of the high rate of maternal mortality in Burkina Faso.
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This report of a peer study conducted by FORWARD UK and Options Consultancy presents results from a qualitative, participatory research study investigating beliefs, perceptions and experiences of women affected by FGM.
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