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Female Genital Mutilation: Exploring Strategies for Ending Ritualized Torture; Shaming, Blaming, and Utilizing the Convention against Torture [PDF]

, 2008
The intent of this article is to graphically describe female genital mutilation (FGM); discuss the background of FGM and its health, psychological, and social implications; propose some workable solutions to ending FGM; and raise the level of awareness ...
Broussard, Patricia A.
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'It is what was handed over to us as our heritage and must not be taken away just like that': Traditional birth attendants' attitudes towards the elimination of intergenerational female genital mutilation/cutting in Osun State, Nigeria.

PLOS Global Public Health
Female genital mutilation/cutting is a harmful practice that violates the sexual and reproductive health rights of women and girls. The practice is often perpetrated directly or indirectly from one generation to another as a way of preserving the culture,
Rosemary Omolara Fafowora, Sinegugu Evidence Duma   +1 more
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International efforts on abandoning female genital mutilation

African Journal of Urology, 2013
Female genital mutilation (FGM), sometimes referred to as female circumcision or female genital cutting, is a harmful cultural practice without any known health benefit.
E. Edouard, O. Olatunbosun, L. Edouard
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Ritual Genital Cutting of Female Minors [PDF]

Pediatrics, 2010
This Policy Statement was retired May 2010. The traditional custom of ritual cutting and alteration of the genitalia of female infants, children, and adolescents, referred to as female genital mutilation or female genital cutting (FGC), persists primarily in Africa and among certain communities in the Middle East and Asia.
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Tanzania HIV/AIDS Indicator Survey 2003-04 [PDF]

, 2005
The Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) authorised the National Bureau of Statistics\ud (NBS) to conduct the THIS. The THIS is the first household survey of its kind to be conducted in Tanzania.\ud The survey covered the Tanzania Mainland only.The ...
National Bureau of Statistics Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, (NBS), ORC Macro, (ORCM), Tanzania Commission for AIDS Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, (TACAIDS)   +2 more
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Factors associated with general practitioners' routines and comfortability with assessing female genital cutting: a cross-sectional survey. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res, 2023
Ziyada MM, Johansen REB, Berthelsen M, Lien IL, Bendiksen B.   +4 more
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Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: Female genital cutting (FGC) is the collective name given to traditional practices that involve partial or total cutting away of the female external genitalia whether for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons.
Mohammed A Tag-Eldin, Mohsen A Gadallah, Mahmoud N Al-Tayeb, Mostafa Abdel-Aty, Esmat Mansour, Mona Sallem   +5 more
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Inspiring Change for Women's Rights and Dignity [PDF]

, 2014
A special one-day event organized by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights shed light on the challenges women face in exercising their fundamental rights to access water, sanitation,
Sarah Simpson
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Female genital mutilation/cutting

, 2015
Female genital mutilation or Cutting is a destructİve operation, during which The female genitals are partly or entirely removed or inlured with the goals of inhibiting a woman's sexual leelings due to cultural, religious and social factors. Most often the mutilation is performed before puberty.
Ali, Faduma M., Abdillahi, Hibo A., Mohamed, Samiya A.   +2 more
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Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda [PDF]

, 2008
Explains how girls' welfare affects overall economic and social outcomes. Outlines steps to disaggregate health, education, and other data by age and gender; invest strategically in girls' programs; and ensure equitable benefits for girls in all ...
Caren Grown, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Margaret E. Greene, Ruth Levine   +3 more
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