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FGM/C in the international news »

  • Stopfgm/c.org Tuesday, May 01, 2012
    Ban FGM Campaign: The Belgian Senate is hosting the launch of a Call for a resolution by the UN General Assembly in 2012
    Coalition to Ban FGM is launching an appeal to the United Nations for a resolution that explicitly prohibit female genital mutilation around the world, and invited all States to implement legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation, taking all the necessary legislative , political and organizational measures to put an end to this practice
  • Stopfgm/c.org Tuesday, April 24, 2012
    Female Genital Mutilation: “Not enough worked with communities at risk”
    "It worked enough with communities at risk," said Teresa Mitchell, Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Equality, by way of conclusion about the work done in Portugal for the eradication of the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). He added, until now "sensitize, we formed and advocate", but FGM is still "a little known fact of the quantitative point of view and poorly studied from the academic point of view"
  • Stopfgm/c.org Tuesday, April 24, 2012
    Jason Kenney makes last-minute intervention in family’s deportation to Guinea

    Guinea, a small country in Western Africa with a population of 10 million, also lays claim to the fifth-highest rate of female genital mutilation. According to the World Health Organization, around 40 per cent of the country's female population is subjected to this practice.

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