67 days ago by Kate Jongbloed

Showing visitors around your home town may seem tedious, but for Hellen Nduta – GAdventures‘ (formerly Gap Adventures) only female tour leader in Africa – it’s a way to make sure visitors to Kenya see the country from a local’s point of view. When Hellen saw a sign supporting girls’ education, she s ...

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72 days ago by Zardra

I had this other blog, which I never used, that I was gonna use for these more serious entries about issues that I find very important to bring up. But I only wrote this one entry on that blog and... well, it died. I still want to write these "issue" entries, but I decided I can just as well write t ...

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81 days ago by onethoughtfulwoman

I can’t quite remember where I first read about female genital mutilation/cutting,( FGM/C) otherwise known as female circumcision, but the whole horror of it touched me and stayed with me. I had to find out more. Time passed and nothing more had reached the surface for me. Looking back, I found the ...

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83 days ago by Joe Cahill

A (a minor) -v- Refugee Appeals Tribunal Neutral Citation : (2011) IEHC 373. High Court Judgment was delivered on October 7th, 2011, by Mr Justice Gerard Hogan. Judgment The member of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal did not make a balanced assessment of the threat to a six-year-old Nigerian girl, who i ...

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87 days ago by Women News Network

Nanna Sejsbo – WNN Features (WNN) CAIRO: Heba, a 27 year old Egyptian woman, closes the door, offering a tray of glasses of sparkling red Karkale-nectar. Hibiscus-petals swim to the surface of the drink. The walls of her apartment are likewise painted in clear colors, and the floors are lined with p ...

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87 days ago by breaking news guru

Female genital mutilation is the removal of the female genitalsparts partly or totally. It was mostly practiced in the African communities on girls during their adolescence. The act is a contravention of women and girls rights as it has no medical importance to them. Many traditional women viewed it ...

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88 days ago by Tobi-Dawne

Well… initially I was going to share a photography preview tonight, but then I had some read/write errors with one of my hard drives. Don’t worry, we got it all cleared up, ran out and purchased a new external drive to replace the one that (totally out of the blue) began having issues, and are trans ...

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101 days ago by FGC Blogger

By: SEM Contributor on November 3, 2011. World Vision Sierra Leone a child focused nongovernmental organization in partnership with the Advocacy Movement Network (AMNET) has succeeded in advocating and lobbying traditional chiefs and SOWEIS in Pujehun District to sign an MOU banning the female genit ...

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101 days ago by FGC Blogger

GALKAYO, 3 November 2011 (IRIN) - Women's groups in the Somali town of Galkayo are lobbying the authorities in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland to enact a law banning female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), saying the practice was becoming widespread. Activists say FGM/C causes ser ...

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101 days ago by FGC Blogger

Tuesday, 1st November 2011 Worries have emerged that female genital mutilation could be being practised in the Maldives, the local Minivan News has revealed. A Health Ministry insider from the Department of Gender and Family Protection told the publication there have been reports girls are being cir ...

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