Tag FGM
Communities practicing female genital mutilation for generations believe it is ‘just a pinch of skin’ with no lasting impact on the girl International Day of Zero Tolerance For Female Genital Mutilation, marked on February 6 every year, is an important… Continue Reading →
Doubts grow over UN report, seemingly reliant on year-old document from Syria thought to have been doctored Ian Black and Fazel Hawramy The Guardian, Thursday 24 July 2014 18.29 BST An Iraqi Christian family in the village of Qaraqush after fleeing Mosul. Photograph:… Continue Reading →
Out in the open What is it like to have undergone female genital mutilation, asks NID student’s film Jyoti Punwani [email protected] When a 24-year-old student of film and video communication at the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad received… Continue Reading →
Manar Ammar | 4 May 2012 Egypt MP Azza el-Garf publicly supports FGM, and is being sued by a local women’s org. Egypt’s New Women Foundation said they are suing Islamist Parliament member Azza al-Garf over her pro-female genitals mutilation (FGM)… Continue Reading →