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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![European Commission - Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: Transforming the Lives of Girls and Women through EU External Relations 2016-2020](/img-cache/EDAN7830.f281223f.jpg)
![European Commission - Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019](/img-cache/EDAN7830.f281223f.jpg)
![EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy (2015-2019)](/img-cache/EDAN7830.f281223f.jpg)
The EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy for 2015-2019 aims to promote and protect human rights and support democracy in non-EU countries.
More![European Commission Proposal for EU accession to the Istanbul Convention](/img-cache/EDAN7830.f281223f.jpg)
The European Commission has proposed for the EU to ratify the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention, a comprehensive international treaty on combating violence against women and domestic violence.
More![European Parliament Resolution on combating female genital mutilation in the EU (2009)](/img-cache/EDAN7830.f281223f.jpg)
The EU Parliament adopted a resolution on 24 March 2009 calling for an end to FGM in Europe.
More![European Parliament Report on the situation of women refugees and asylum seekers in the EU (2016)](/img-cache/EDAN7830.f281223f.jpg)
The European Parliament has adopted a Report on the situation of women refugees and asylum seekers in the EU.
More![European Parliament Report on the situation of women refugees and asylum seekers in the EU (2016)](/img-cache/OJHopeandUnity.03b1d15a.jpg)
The European Parliament has adopted a Report on the situation of women refugees and asylum seekers in the EU.
More![EU Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World in 2015](/img-cache/EDAN7830.f281223f.jpg)
The EU Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World states that the EU had been particularly active to mark 2015 as the landmark year for gender equality and women's empowerment.
More![EU Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World in 2014](/img-cache/EDAN7830.f281223f.jpg)
The EU Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World in 2014 mentions several initiatives taken up by the EU to combat FGM worldwide.
More![EIGE - Female genital mutilation in the European Union and Croatia: Report (2013)](/img-cache/EDAN7830.f281223f.jpg)
The European Institute for Gender equality (EIGE), an EU agency, produced this report on Female genital mutilation in the European Union and Croatia in 2013.
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