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Empowering women to lead the change: One woman’s fight against FGM

05 February 2015
A network of women advocates in Doka, Sudan. They are committed to ending FGM in their community. © UNFPA
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The start of a movement: Girls rising up against FGM

06 February 2015
A march against FGM. The participants are graduates and supporters of a rite of passage that serves as an alternative to FGM. © UNFPA/Mandela Gregoire
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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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Extracts from "True Story" - FGM/C

March 18, 2013

Extracts from "True Story" - FGM/C

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#endFGM: "It's because of my education that I have not been circumcised."

October 23, 2013

#endFGM: "It's because of my education that I have not been circumcised." 

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#endFGM: "Well. I am now a dead person. But I would not circumcis

October 23, 2013

#endFGM: "Well. I am now a dead person. But I would not circumcis

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#endFGM: "Who wants to see that 'thing' sitting there? The top part

October 23, 2013
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#endFGM: "We circumsise them within a day."

October 23, 2013
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Taking Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Out of the Cultural Mosaic of Kenya

22 April 2010
The rate of FGM/C is declining in Theraka villages where Ntano Na Mugambo or circumcision with words, is substituting for a cut.
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