Statement
Joint Statement on International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
06 February 2015#endFGM: How an organizer of cutting ceremonies became a change-maker
"I received a lot of information about this harmful practice. And I decided to stop organizing cutting ceremonies for girls. Our ancestors weren't aware of the dangers."
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The day I became a woman
For millions of women around the world, the transition to womanhood is not marked by independence, a job or graduation from school, but rather by female genital mutilation.
Statement
Empowering women and girls requires renewed efforts to end violence and harmful practices
21 November 2016This is 2016 and yet one in three women worldwide still experiences or has experienced some form of physical or sexual violence, usually perpetrated by someone she knows. Moreover, millions of women and girls have been subjected to other forms of violence and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, which affect an estimated 200 million women and girls, or child marriage, with one in three girls in developing countries being married off before the age of 18.