Iceland’s Directorate for International Development Cooperation (ICEIDA) sets gender equality as a cross-cutting theme. ICEIDA’s priorities in this area include ending harmful practices like FGM.

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Two female speakers, UNFPA Executive Director Diene Keita and H.E. Anna Jóhannsdóttir, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations, seated at the event.

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Harnessing the power of AI for a future free from female genital mutilation
An adolescent girl holds her newborn daughter in a bloodied blanket. There is an IV line in the girl’s wrist.

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Female genital mutilation in infancy still common, Gambian mothers say

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