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    African Women’s Decade 2010-2020: 2013 annual review

    2014
    Since the Continental Launch of the African Women’s Decade (AWD) by the African Union (AU) in 2010, have African women’s rights advanced? Make Every Woman Count’s annual review of the AWD aims to evaluate the progress, or lack thereof, being made to include and promote the rights of women at country, regional, and Pan-African levels.
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    European Institute for Gender Equality: female genital mutilation

    European Institute for Gender Equality, 2014
    The European Union (EU) has made considerable efforts in recent years to address female genital mutilation (FGM) as a form of gender-based violence and a serious violation of women and girls human rights. In June 2012, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on ending FGM.
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    Female genital mutilation: the case for a national action plan (second report of session 2014–15)

    British House of Commons, 2014
    This second session report of the British House of Commons Home Affairs Committee on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) presents the case for a national action plan. The introduction lays out the various types of FGM, the history and extent of the practice, and the devastating consequences that arise from it, both physical and mental.
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    Meaning-making of female genital cutting: children's perception and acquired knowledge of the ritual

    Dove Medical Press, 2013
    How do girls who have undergone female genital cutting understand the ritual? This study provides an analysis of the learning process and knowledge acquired in their meaning-making process. Eighteen participants were interviewed in qualitative indepth interviews. Women in Norway, mostly with Somali or Gambian backgrounds, were asked about their experiences of circumcision.
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    Cultural protection against traumatic stress: traditional support of children exposed to the ritual of female genital cutting

    Dove Medical Press, 2014
    This study explores the factors addressed in folk psychology in The Gambia for protecting the girl-child from the potential traumatic stress of female genital cutting (FGC). The type and quality of the psychological care was analyzed and compared with research on traumatic stress and principles for crisis and trauma intervention.
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    UK Home Office resource collection: female genital mutilation

    Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, 2014
    This UK Home Office online resource series brings together all documents relating to FGM. The documents found here include statements opposing FGM, guidance notes, impact assessments, policy papers, correspondence, forms and promotional material.
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    Too much pain: female genital mutilation & asylum in the European Union - a statistical overview

    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2013
    A girl or woman seeking asylum because she has been forced to undergo, or is likely to be subjected to, female genital mutilation (FGM) can qualify for refugee status in the European Union (EU) under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.
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    True story - female genital mutilation in Afar, Ethiopia

    2012
    The Afar region of North-east Ethiopia has one of the country’s highest rates of female genital mutilation (FGM) with around 74 percent of women and girls undergoing the practice. Since 2000, a joint programme to abandon FGM in the Afar region carried out by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has made significant progress.
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    Accelerating the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting

    United Nations Population Fund, 2014
    The Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), co-sponsored by UNFPA and UNICEF, aims to see communities that practice it abandon FGM/C within a generation. Key to their success is using a human rights-based approach to encourage communities to act collectively, so that girls or their families who opt out do not jeopardise marriage prospects or become social outcasts.
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    SafeHands for Mothers

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