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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The END FGM European Campaign developed a strategy in 2010 with a number of tangible recommendations to end FGM and protect women and girls arriving in Europe to flee from the threat of mutilation.
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AIDA's 'Wrong counts and closing doors' demonstrates that the inability of reception systems to adapt to higher numbers of asylum seekers is a structural challenge throughout Europe.
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This glossary on migration by the Panos Europe Institute and UNAOC was designed to offer precise and media-friendly definitions of key migration concepts.
More Violence against women and human rights violations can be difficult to report on, especially when deadlines are urgent. These guidelines give useful information on how to do so.
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This report includes gender perspectives on torture and covers harmful practices, including female genital mutilation.
More The tool-kit if free for use qnd helps groups or individuals to design their own survey, conduct interviews and calculate results.
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At least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation in 30 countries, according to a new statistical report published ahead of the United Nations’ International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.
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This annex summarises the state of play of on-going actions, including work to complete the implementation of the Action Plan on Unaccompanied Minors (2010-2014)1 which the Commission will evaluate and report on later this year.
More Amnesty International and the Council of Europe created a guide to place FGM high on the political agenda and to promote the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence.
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