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Eliminating female genital mutilation: an interagency statement - OHCHR, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNECA, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIFEM, WHO
World Health Organization, 2008Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a dangerous practice, and a critical human rights issue. Despite increasing international cooperation to counteract FGM, the prevalence of the practices remains high in many areas. This statement was issued by a group of United Nations agencies in support of advocacy for the abandonment of FGM.DocumentWhat works and what does not: a discussion of popular approaches for the abandonment of female genital mutilation
Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013A range of interventions have been carried out over the past few decades to promote the abandonment of female genital mutilation (FGM). While these efforts have had varied success, the prevalence of FGM is reducing in nearly all the countries in which it is traditionally practiced.DocumentFemale genital mutilation/cutting: a statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change
United Nations Children's Fund, 2013Efforts to address female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) have increased in the past several decades, with support from many local communities, governments, international institutions, non-governmental organisations, as well as religious and other civil society groups.DocumentFemale genital mutilation practices in Kenya: the role of alternative rites of passage - a case study of Kisii and Kuria districts
Feed the Minds, 2011This study seeks to better understand female gential mutilation (FGM) as it is practised by the Kuria and Kisii communities in Kenya, in order to enable agencies working there to devise more effective interventions encouraging the abandonment of FGM.DocumentPlatform for action towards the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C)
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2008This Platform for Action summarises the elements of a programmatic approach to support the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C).Document28 Too Many
28 Too Many, 2014Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a traditional cultural practice involving the cutting or removal of the external genitals. FGM (sometimes called female genital cutting) is traditionally practised by non-medically trained women, often in unsterile conditions and without anaesthetic; it is performed on babies, girls and women before they are married.DocumentARROW resource kit
Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women, 2014This Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW) publication, the ARROW Resource Kit (ARK), is a compilation of the most effective governance and management tools and resources that ARROW has developed over the past 20 years.DocumentFolleto informativo sobre los DESC de las mujeres (Español)
International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2013A nivel mundial, las mujeres representan el 70% de los 1.200 millones de personas que viven en la pobreza.DocumentEstrategias, alianzas y desafíos feministas en materia de litigio internacional (Español)
Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer / Latin America and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of the Women Rights, Peru, 2011El litigio en las instancias internacionales ha sido un camDocumentChanger une convention néfaste : la pratique de l’excision /mutilation génitales féminines (Français)
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2008Chaque année trois millions de femmes et des filles subissent des mutilations génitales, opération dangereuses voire mortelle, sources de douleurs et des maux indicibles.Pages