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Female genital mutilation/cutting

BMJ, 2013
In December 2012 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to intensify global efforts to eliminate female mutilation/cutting. As the recent Unicef report argues evidence played a major part in driving this resolution through. But what is the character of the available evidence and what is known about how to accelerate change to bring ...
Kaplan, Adriana, Cham, Babucarr, Njie, Lamin A., Seixas, Ana, Blanco, Sandra, Utzet, Mireia   +5 more
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Risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury associated with female genital mutilation/cutting and timing of deinfibulation

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 2022
Introduction A greater risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury has been reported among African migrants in several host countries compared with the general population. To what degree female genital mutilation/cutting affects this risk is not clear.
Sølvi Taraldsen, Siri Vangen, Pål Øian, Ingvil K. Sørbye   +3 more
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Female circumcision: Limiting the harm [v2; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/RHhQ7C]

F1000Research, 2012
Objective: To review the strength of evidence that links many health hazards to female genital cutting. Material and methods: Literature search in Medline/Pubmed and Google scholar.
Mohamed Kandil
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Female genital mutilation/cutting in Sierra Leone: are educated women intending to circumcise their daughters?

BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2020
Background Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has been recognized as a gross violation of human rights of girls and women. This is well established in numerous international legal instruments.
Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Justice Kanor Tetteh, Ebenezer Kwesi Armah-Ansah, Kofi Aduo-Adjei, Aisha Sena-Iddrisu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Headscarf Controversy:A Response to Jill Marshall [PDF]

, 2008
This paper argues that Article 8 of the ECHR, as applied to the protection of a person’s right to wear a headscarf, is an inappropriate locus for thrashing out arguments about the right to protection of religious freedom, and that Article 9 allows for a ...
Amy Kaufman, Anne Fausto Sterling, Dawn Lyon, Diana Tietjens Meyers, Emily Grabham, Joan Wallach Scott, Judith Butler, Lisa Duggan, Lisa Duggan, Maneesha Deckha, Michel Foucault, Nicola Barker, Rosemary Auchmuty, Sharon Cowan   +13 more
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Female circumcision: Limiting the harm [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/PX6UzP]

F1000Research, 2012
Objective: To review the strength of evidence that links many health hazards to female genital cutting. Material and methods: Literature search in Medline/Pubmed and Google scholar.
Mohamed Kandil
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants of Disagreement with Female Genital Mutilation Among Mothers

International Journal of Women's Health, 2022
Esra Keles,1 Hasan Huseyin Eker,2 Guven Bektemur,3 Ifrah Adan Hilowle,4 Mohamed Mukhtar Kassim,5 Mohamed Abdulkadir Hassan-Kadle,6,7 Ali Adali,5 Şeyma Karaketir8 1Department of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Health Sciences Turkey, Kartal ...
Keles E, Eker HH, Bektemur G, Hilowle IA, Kassim MM, Hassan-Kadle MA, Adali A, Karaketir Ş   +7 more
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Improving sexual and reproductive health of migrant girls and women living with female genital mutilations providing them with specific maternity care. [PDF]

, 2017
Worldwide, 200 million girls and women have been estimated as living with female genital mutilation/cutting. Today, this phenomenon does not only concern the countries where this practice is widespread, but also in many other nations where the ...
Benagiano, Giuseppe, Cerbo, Rosanna, Fabiola, Riccardini, Jasmine, Abdulcadir, Lucchese, Franco, Luciana, Barreca   +5 more
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New research on the global prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting: Research, clinical, and policy implications.

PLoS Medicine, 2022
In this perspective, Kerrie Stevenson and Brenda Kelly discuss new research on the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting alongside clinical and policy implications.
Kerrie Stevenson, Brenda Kelly
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Medicalization of female genital mutilation/cutting

African Journal of Urology, 2013
Globally 100–140 million women and girls have been subjected to female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) which is a harmful practice, associated with immediate and long term complications, has no benefit what so ever, is unethical and has no religious ...
G.I. Serour
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