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International efforts on abandoning female genital mutilation

open access: yesAfrican 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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Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation in Sudan: A never ending story?

open access: yes, 2016
Women inside and outside of the Sudanese government were deeply concerned about the high prevalence rates of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) after decades of efforts to eradicate the practice.
al-Nagar, Samia, Tønnessen, Liv
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Cases studies about female genital mutilation «Jadare» in the culture fulbe (Guinea Bissau)

open access: yesCultura de los Cuidados, 2019
Objective: Female genital mutilation covers all procedures that, intentionally and for non-medical reasons, alter or damage, partially or totally, the female genital organs whether for cultural or religious reasons.
Cadidjato Baldé   +1 more
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Clitoral keloids after female genital mutilation/cutting

open access: yes, 2016
We aimed to describe the presentation of long-term complications of female genital mutilation/cutting and the surgical management of clitoral keloids secondary to female genital mutilation/cutting.
Adıyeke, Mehmet   +3 more
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Female genital mutilation as a form of pathogenic vulnerability

open access: yes
La mutilación genital femenina o circuncisión femenina, describe un conjunto de prácticas que se realizan con el fin de alterar, remover y/o manipular los genitales externos femeninos, generalmente de niñas y mujeres jóvenes, sin propósitos médicos.
Gómez Martínez, Lina Gabriela
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The anti-female genital mutilation discourse in Contemporary Egypt

open access: yes, 2011
This chapter gives an overview the main arguments of the anti female genital mutilation discourse in Egyp tbetween 2000 and ...
Tolino, Serena
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Prevention against female genital mutilation/cutting

open access: yes, 2023
Female genital mutilation/cutting, FGM/C, is the removal of and/or damaging of the outer female genitalia. It is performed on a large number of women and girls in many countries worldwide and can lead to secondary health problems.
Lisa Forsberg
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Medicalization of female genital mutilation/cutting

open access: yesAfrican 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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Surgical management of a huge post-circumcision epidermoid cyst of the vulva presenting unusually in a postmenopausal woman: a case report

open access: yesJournal of Medical Case Reports, 2018
Background Epidermoid cysts of the external genitalia are one of the late complications of female genital mutilation. These cysts are usually small and painless. The presentation of a giant vulvar cyst in a postmenopausal woman has not been reported; the
Wondimu Gudu
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The medicalisation of female genital mutilation

open access: yes, 2015
The ‘medicalisation’ of female genital mutilation should be denounced on two counts. Firstly, it is usually anatomically more damaging and, secondly, it goes against the ethical basis of the medical ...
Martz, Frédérique   +3 more
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