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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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    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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    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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    ‘I Carry the Name of my Parents’: young people’s reflections on FGM and forced marriage - results from PEER studies in London, Amsterdam and Lisbon

    Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development, 2013
    This report presents the results of three participatory ethnographic evaluation research (PEER) studies, carried out as part of the CREATE Youth-Net project, which aims to safeguard young people in three European countries (the United Kingdom, Portugal and the Netherlands) from harmful practices, in particular Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage.
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    Handbook for cultural and religious leaders to end FGM

    African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2014
    What action can you take to address FGM? This handbook, produced by the African Women’s Development and Communications Network (FEMNET) is a behaviour change communication tool intended to expand the engagement of men in religious and cultural institutions to reach out to their communities to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) in Meru and Tharaka, Kenya.
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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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    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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    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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    Harmful traditional practices affecting women & girls

    Gender and Development Network, 2013
    Harmful traditional practices are particular forms of violence against women and girls which are defended on the basis of tradition, culture, religion or superstition. They include female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), early and forced marriage, crimes committed in the name of honour, dowry-related violence, and son preference.
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    Stop FGM Middle East

    Stop FGM Middle East, 2014
    The UN estimates that up to 140 million girls and women worldwide are affected by female genital mutilation (FGM), yet there could be many more as growing evidence suggests that FGM may be widespread in various parts of Asia and the Middle East. Studies are indispensable for the struggle against FGM, yet they are non-existent for bulk of the Middle East.

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