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Empowering women to lead the change: One woman’s fight against FGM
05 February 2015Engaging Midwives in the Global Campaign to End Female Genital Mutilation
Resource date: 01 November 2014
Author: UNFPA
UNFPA is mobilizing midwives in the prevention female genital mutilation (FGM) and in caring for its consequences, through a joint initiative in the context of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on FGM/C and the UNFPA Midwifery Programme. Building on the expertise and networks of the two global programmes, UNFPA will empower midwives to serve as role models, counselors and advocates in the campaign to end FGM.
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Taking Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Out of the Cultural Mosaic of Kenya
22 April 2010News
Ugandan Communities Scrutinize a Violent – Sometimes Deadly – Rite of Passage
01 February 2013News
Avoiding and Mitigating the Health Consequences of FGM/C in Ethiopia
18 June 2013News
Abandoning Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation in the Afar Region of Ethiopia
08 April 2010Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Accelerating Change - Original Proposal (2009)
Funding proposal
Number of pages: 30
Publication date: 01 January 2009
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
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Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting video
February 24, 2010Examines the practice of FGM/C and strategies employed by UNFPA and UNICEF to encourage communities to abandon it. The two agencies, working closely with governments, NGOs, religious leaders and small community groups, aim to bring about an end to the practice.
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Senegal: Beyond Tradition
March 17, 2011Dialyma's father had forbidden his mother to cut his daughter. The grandmother cut Dialyma against her wishes. Now her father has joined a growing movement fighting to end female genital mutilation. He says change must come from the grassroots.