Female circumcision

Articles

• UK: Clamping down on forced marriage and FGM worldwide: All hail this new piece of law
  22 March 2014, by siawi3

  We will not have fulfilled our promise to girls and women as long as early and forced marriage exists and as long as terrible violence like female genital mutilation happens.

• Un député tunisien qualifie l’excision d’opération « esthétique »
  13 mars 2013, par siawi3

  « Il est inacceptable qu’un député valorise un crime contre la femme », s’est emportée à la tribune de l’Assemblée nationale constituante (ANC) l’élue Nadia Chaabane à l’adresse du député Habib Ellouze qui appartient à la frange des durs du mouvement Ennahda.

• France : « Journée internationale Tolérance Zéro aux Mutilations Sexuelles féminines »
  1er février 2016, par siawi3

  Le GAMS co-organise de nombreux événements autour du 6 février 2016 "Journée
  internationale Tolérance Zéro aux Mutilations Sexuelles féminines

• UK: FGM on the rise
  6 July 2017, by siawi3

  The NHS in England recorded 5,391 new cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the past year. These are only the cases doctors reported. Almost half involved women and girls living in London. No link with the fact that Islamist preachers have been advocating for FGM to be practiced by all Muslims the world over, including in Europe ??

• India: Release of WeSpeakOut study on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting among the Bohra community
  5 February 2018, by siawi3

  The report titled, “The Clitoral Hood a Contested Site: Khafd or Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in India.” is the largest research report documenting the practise of FGM/C among the Bohra community. Releasing survivor group WeSpeakOut’s latest study on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting today at a press conference in New Delhi Dr. Shashi Tharoor, said, “FGM is an act that has been condemned around the world. For us in India to allow this practise to continue, sanctified as a cultural practise, is a big mistake. When we outlaw it, the practise will cease because the community concerned always has the reputation of upholding the law of the land.”

• Female Genital Mutilation Banned In Nigeria.
  1 October 2015, by siawi3

  Nigeria made history by outlawing female genital mutilation. The ban falls under the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act 2015 that was passed in Senate on May 5 and recently enacted into law. This was one of the last acts by the outgoing president, Goodluck Jonathan. His successor, Muhammadu Buhari, was sworn into office this past Friday, May 29.

• Sweden : The Venus Hottentot Cake
  29 April 2012, by siawi3

  The fact of Makode Linde’s blackness does not legitimize anything done here, and the message about the seriousness of FGM is completely subsumed by the hideous medium through which it has been conveyed. One does not need to be subjected to the epistemic violence underpinning the grotesque reconstruction of FGM, in the form of a black woman having her clitoris cut off to the sound of a laughing crowd with a fixed gaze, drinks in hand, to raise awareness of this very serious issue.

• ’A piece of me ’
  20 October 2019, by siawi3

  Sara Elgamal’s documentary A Piece of Me follows three survivors of FGM who are campaigning against the practice.

• Fighting FGM in Senegal
  18 January 2020, by siawi3

  Sister Fa is a rapper and activist on a mission to eradicate FGM from her native Senegal, where nearly a quarter of women aged 15 to 49 have fallen victim to this harmful practice.

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  8 mai 2020, par siawi3

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