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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Esta política quiere servir como marco de referencia para el trabajo que Médicos del Mundo lleva a cabo con titulares de obligaciones, de responsabilidades y de derechos
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The programme focuses on safeguarding girls at risk, and on community engagement to enable FGM-affected communities to assume an active role at the forefront of work towards ending this entrenched practice.
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A mixed methods study exploring men’s involvement in Female Genital Mutilation in Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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Child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) are deeply entrenched practices in many regions in Tanzania despite the country having signed numerous regional and international human rights agreements limiting or banning it.
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Health, psychological, legal and reception services in Palermo, Italy for refugees and asylum seekers survivors of sexual and gender based violence
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This report aims to safeguard young people in three European countries (the United Kingdom, Portugal and the Netherlands) from harmful practices, in particular Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage.
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Simple visuals to explain easy and respectful ways for women to wash their intimate parts.
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Summer Holidays, the law and YOU. Summer holidays are a time when there is a high risk that FGM will happen to girls and when families may come under pressure from relatives or friends in the UK or home country to have their daughters cut.
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FGM is Non-Islamic, against the teachings of Islam and brings Islam into disrepute, is putting the health of our daughters, sisters, mothers and wives at great risk, is illegal in the UK and carries a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
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Hard data gathered by TERRE DES FEMMES, Germany’s largest women rights organisation (In German)
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