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5 hours ago by dr.Abu Hana :: أبو هـنـأ ...

Medikalisasi khitan pada bayi perempuan Bila terjadi kontroversi seputar sirkumsisi pada anak/bayi laki-laki, nampaknya semua mudah sepakat tentang sunat pada bayi perempuan. Pada beberapa komunitas, dilakukan praktek sunat perempuan yang diserupakan dengan sirkumsisi pada laki-laki. Karena klitoris ...

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12 hours ago by Skepdude

The barbaric ritual of female genital mutilation is still rampant in many parts of the world. But today we get welcome news: the President of Uganda is moving to outlaw the procedure threatening the death penatly for any practicioner at whose hands a young girl dies. While I am generally against the ...

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1 day ago by Lisa

South Africa’s Mail & Guardian reports that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will enact a law banning female circumcision, or female genital mutilation. According to a recent United Nations resolution against the practice, between 100 and 140 million women worldwide are victims of the practice.

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1 day ago by Serena

I’m off to speak at the Campus Progress Conference today. Bill Clinton and Mo Rocca are headlining. How the hell did I end up on the speaker list? Anyhoo . . . your morning linkage to get your day off to a pro-choice start. New Study Shows Women are Asking to Be Raped? – Feminist Law Professors The ...

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2 days ago by tunosabes

Having survived female genital mutilation when she was three years old in Senegal, Fatoumata does not want her four U.S.-born daughters to face the same violence. But as an undocumented immigrant at risk of deportation, the past Fatoumata fought to leave behind might be catching up to her children. ...

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10 days ago by David Wilton

The Bay Area Intactivists Group, sponsored by MGMBill.org, marched again this year in the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade. The organizers chose the slogan "The Audacity of Pride" to reflect how gay activism has, through sheer will, persevered to the point of making marriage available for all - and to ...

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14 days ago by trudecdgecs

From IRIN Africa, an interesting article about working with communities to spread messages about health and education as a way to combat FGM: “In politics and sociology you reach a tipping point and once you’ve reached it, things change,” says Min-whee Kang of the UN Children’s Fund. “This is what w ...

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17 days ago by Filip Spagnoli

( source, an Amnesty International ad; the text says “every year, 2 million girls suffer the pain of genital mutilation…”) More on this topic. Posted in health, human rights ads Tagged: ad, advert, amnesty international, female genital mutilation, fgm, gender discrimination, human rights, human righ ...

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17 days ago by kojoromi

Campaigns against female circumcision can have the reverse effect Source: Combating Female Circumcision By Azeez Mahmoud in Sulaimaniyah (ICR No. 291, 3-June-09) Azeez Mahmoud, an IWPR-trained journalist, helps Wadi&s mobile teams educate women about female genital mutilation. … International interv ...

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21 days ago by trudecdgecs

UNHCR last month released a Guidance Note on Refugee Claims Relating to Female Genital Mutilation. This document outlines evolving jurisprudence on refugee claims relating to FGM and establishes the grounds on which a woman, girl or in some cases a parent can qualify for refugee status under the 195 ...

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