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Courageous girls change attitudes about FGM in Ethiopia

01 March 2018
Uncut girls club members come together to change attitudes about FGM in the community. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Meron Negash
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“I refused”: Brave women and girls take a stand against FGM

06 February 2018
Latty, 14, was inspired by her mother to call for the elimination of FGM. Luca Zordan for UNFPA
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A vision of change: Pioneer spends 30 years advocating end to FGM in Sudan

31 January 2018
Abdullah Ali Abdullah has spent 30 years working with communities in North Kordofan to encourage abandonment of female genital mutilation. © UNFPA Sudan
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Escape at dawn: running away from child marriage and FGM in Kenya

06 September 2017
Faith (centre) with her friends Sylvia (right) and Vivian, who all ran away from home to avoid female genital mutilation and child marriage. © UNFPA Kenya/Douglas Waudo
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For many girls, school holidays means FGM “cutting season”

10 August 2017
Asha Ali Ibrahim, a local circumciser, with her granddaughter, who is due to be cut this year. © UNFPA/Georgina Goodwin
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Efforts to end FGM must be intensified, leaders urge

17 March 2017
Shaimaa Ahmed Ali teaches members of her community about the harms of female genital mutilation (FGM). © UNFPA Egypt/Sima Diab
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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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