News

When health workers harm: the medicalization of female genital mutilation in Egypt

02 October 2019
Community leaders in Assiut Governorate speak about female genital mutilation. © UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme to Eliminate FGM
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Publications

2018 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme: Accelerating Change

Publication date: 31 August 2019

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF

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5 ways female genital mutilation undermines the health of women and girls

20 May 2019
Midwifery students at the Hargeisa Institute of Health Sciences in Somaliland learn how to assist in case of childbirth complications caused by female genital mutilation. © UNFPA/Georgina Goodwin
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Top 5 things you didn’t know about female genital mutilation

05 February 2019
Asha lays out the tools she uses to perform female genital mutilation in Somalia. © UNFPA/Georgina Goodwin
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Publications

How to Transform a Social Norm

Publication date: 06 September 2018

Author: UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation Publication Date: 2018

Publisher: UNFPA, UNICEF

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For girls escaping FGM in rural Tanzania, crowdsourced maps show the way to safety

22 October 2018
Ending FGM takes a multi-pronged approach – from offering a refuge for girls at acute risk to engaging families and communities to raise awareness of the harm it causes, and transform the social norms that uphold the practice. Here, girls in Tanzania’s Mara region participate in an alternative rites of passage camp at the UNFPA-supported Masanga Centre. © UNFPA/Mandela Gregoire
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Publications

Manual on Social Norms and Change (2016)

Number of pages: 24

Publication date: 02 June 2016

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF

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Publications

Demographic Perspectives on Female Genital Mutilation

Number of pages: 54

Publication date: 20 July 2015

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

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Implementation of the International and Regional Human Rights Framework for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation

Number of pages: 88

Publication date: 01 November 2014

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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