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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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    Aligning with local cultures to end female genital mutilation/cutting

    United Nations Population Fund, 2013
    Decades of efforts to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) have demonstrated that direct assaults on practices laden with cultural significance are doomed to fail. This publication highlights lessons learnt, in order to formulate new strategies that take a more 'culturally sensitive' approach.
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    Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices

    Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices, 2014
    The Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices (IAC) advocates for the removal of harmful traditional practices (HTPs) that affect the health of women and children, some of which are female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting (FGC) and female circumcision; early marriage, forced marriage, teenage pregnancy, unhealthy delivery practices, breast Ironing, son preferen
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    Harmful traditional practices: your questions, our answers

    Gender and Development Network, 2014
    What are harmful traditional practices (HTPs), and how can women and girls be protected from them? This report provides an overview of HTPs, explaining their causes and consequences, and bringing together examples of successful approaches to addressing them.
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    Guidelines for parliamentarians: abandoning female genital mutilation/cutting

    Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa, 2012
    At least 28 countries on the African continent practice some form of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C). Believing that FGM/C could be eradicated within a generation if appropriate actions are taken, the Association of European parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) and the Pan-African Parliament Women’s Caucus initiated a campaign to champion the cause among parliamentarians.
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    Harmful traditional practices and implementation of the law on elimination of violence against women in Afghanistan

    United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, 2010
    In August 2009, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan enacted the Law on Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW law), which seeks to eliminate customs, traditions and practices that cause violence against women contrary to the religion of Islam.
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    Adoption of draft Council Conclusions - "Preventing and combating all forms of violence against women and girls, including female genital mutilation”

    European Union, 2014
    On 12 March 2014, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union submitted to the Council a set of draft conclusions on preventing and combating all forms of violence against women and girls, including female genital mutilation (FGM).
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    Legislating change? Responses to criminalizing female genital cutting in Senegal

    Law and Society Association, 2013
    There are divergent views on the potential effects of legislation as an important reform strategy for ending female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). While supporters argue that legal prohibition of FGC has a general deterrent effect, others contest legislation can be perceived as coercive, and derail local efforts to end the practice.
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    Female genital cutting

    Tostan, 2014
    Female genital cutting (FGC) is a deeply-rooted social norm enforced by community expectations around marriageability. Girls who are not cut are often ostracised by their communities. Tostan is an African-based organisation empowering rural communities to achieve sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights.

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