Publications

Accelerating Action: Strengthening alliances and addressing pushback against ending female genital mutilation

Number of pages: 90

Publication date: 30 June 2025

Publisher: UNFPA, UNICEF

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Norway strengthens commitment with UNFPA to end female genital mutilation

19 Nov 2024
Supported by funding from UNFPA donors, Hawa Kamil works with the Elle&Elles Network, a local grassroots organization and leading advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights, including female genital mutilation. © UNFPA / Fahmia Al-Fotih
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Somali survivors of female genital mutilation advocate to change minds – and lives

26 February 2024
UNFPA and UNICEF’s Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation works with grassroots activists to encourage communities to abandon the practice. © UNFPA Somalia
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Raising the voices of survivors to create a generation free from female genital mutilation in Ethiopia

08 February 2024
Zekia is advocating against female genital mutilation among her community and at school in the Dalocha district, in Ethiopia’s Central region. © UNFPA Ethiopia/MOPIX Production
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Publications

Beyond the Crossing: Female genital mutilation across borders

Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda

Publication date: 30 November 2019

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

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Girls are saying no to FGM – and they need political champions

09 October 2018
“The solutions are there. The girls are there. They are working,” said anti-FGM advocate Aissata Camara (right), calling for political support to accelerate the elimination of the practice. © UNFPA/Usenabasi Esiet
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Former Ugandan circumciser says she will never go back to performing FGM

23 February 2017
Turutea Chelangat, a former circumciser in eastern Uganda, has renounced FGM. © UNFPA Uganda/Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi
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