Local Egyptian heroine aims to end “huge” suffering caused by FGM
In her daily life, Hoda Hamed, is a quiet 37-year-old kindergarten teacher, but when she is off the clock, she is a force of nature. Ms. Hamed is an outspoken advocate for women and girls, working tirelessly to convince her rural Egyptian community to abandon female genital mutilation (FGM).
Funding Proposal UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation (Phase II)
<p>The UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FMG/C) is supporting national governments and civil society leadership, action and accountability towards the elimination of FGM/C, and it invests in capacity building to support these efforts.&nbsp;</p>
Midwives on the frontlines of fighting maternal death in Somalia
Maymuum's mother died giving birth. Today, newly graduated midwife Maymuun provides lifesaving care to other pregnant women and newborns in Somalia.
UNFPA and The Guardian present the first pan-African award for reporting on female genital mutilation
“My father forced me to get married to an older man almost his age. The old man gave him 20 cows. I tried to run away from that old man, but my father warned me that he would beat me to death if he was forced to return the cows he was given as payment for dowry,” says an unnamed thirteen year-old girl, her face unseen, as she relays how she was forced to marry shortly after she suffered female genital mutilation (FGM) at age 10, in a short film made by Kenyan journalist Diana Kendi.
A silent epidemic: The fight to end female genital mutilation in Colombia
“When I was 9 years old, my mother told me that three of her sisters died because her grandmother practiced female genital mutilation (FGM),” says Patricia Tobon Yagarí, an Emberá indigenous lawyer from Colombia.