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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tanzania: Sexual Offences Special Provisions Act, 1998
In Tanzania, FGM is illegal. Apart from international conventions ratified, the government passed the Sexual Offences special Provisions Act, 1998 (SOSPA). The law specifically states under section 21 that FGM is illegal, although women over the age of 18 are excluded from the provision of the law.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Kenya
The Children's Act 2001 prohibits subjecting a child to a cultural practice harmful to their life and proscribes a fine of 12 months imprisonment or a fine of Ksh 50,000.
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Uganda: Parliament outlaws Female Genital Mutilation
Parliament has banned the practice of female genital mutilation,
criminalizing the act that is carried out among selected communities in
Uganda. The prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation bill 2009 provides
legislation necessary for criminalizing the practice, prosecution of
offenders and protection of victims.
Members of Parliament highlighted the need for massive awareness campaigns.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Dutch Government Policy Paper on Genital Female Mutilation
The Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport requested the Council for Public Health and Care to advise him on the way in which FGM can be addressed via a special committee. This resulted in an advice in March 2005.
On 26 August 2005, the Government set out its position in the policy advice in a letter to the House of Representatives in which it was decided to deal with FMG intensively in six concentration areas: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Eindhoven and Tilburg. The Ministry requested that Pharos' knowledge centre for refugees and health draw up an action plan based on this government position.
This action plan offers frameworks in which various partners collaborate in the intensive combat against FGM and frameworks for approach in the municipalities.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Italian Ministry of Health's Guidelines on FGM/C
Guidelines for health operators and other people working with communities of immigrates coming from countries where the FGM/C are practised, in order to implement activities of prevention, care and rehabilitation of women and girls who have been submitted to these practices.
The enactment of these Guidelines was provided for in the italian law on FGM/C (January 9th 2006, no. 7) and they are adopted since March 2008.
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