Category Archives: News
Puntland (Somalia) enacted law against FGM
Puntland takes stand against Female Genital Mutilation
“An estimated 100 to 140 million girls and women worldwide are currently living with the consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In Africa an estimated 92 million girls 10 and older have undergone FGM. FGM is internationally recognized as a violation of the human rights of girls and [...]
FGM influences Psychological Health of Girls
Research highlights Psychological Trauma of FGM/C
14/01/2012 – A new study out of Iraq finds evidence to support the suspicion that girls who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting are prone to mental disorders and psychological trauma.
The study shows what many psychologists have long suspected but had little research to confirm: girls who have undergone (FGM/C) are [...]
First Conference on FGM in Middle East is taking place in Beirut
FGM not merely an African problem; high rates in the Middle East
BEIRUT, 18 JANUARY 2012, The first conference ever on female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Middle East is currently taking place in Beirut, Lebanon, with participants from Iraqi Kurdistan, Central Iraq and Yemen with input from experts from Indonesia and Egypt. The groundbreaking event, [...]
Girls and women in New Zealand ´at risk´to undergo FGM
Read the story as published by New Zealand online magazine:
Migrant girls ‘at risk’ of mutilation
An international study says “a growing number” of girls and young women living in immigrant communities in New Zealand are at risk of genital mutilation.
The practice – which involves the partial or complete removal [...]
Exclusive eyewitness report on FGM in Indonesia, a story by Isabella Humphrey
Here you can read the story about FGM from Isabella Humphrey from her current travels in Indonesia:
http://warisdirie.wordpress.com/category/announcements-and-news/
My personal look back on the year 2011
First of all, I would like to thank all supporters of the Desert Flower Foundation and my Team. In 2011, we received a total of 11.249 emails, more than ever before. Victims of FGM, girls threatened by FGM, but also many many people offering their support and wanting to help contacted us this year.
The Desert [...]
Little awareness on FGM in Pakistan
Medical students in Pakistan learn about the prevalence of FGM in their own country, a practice many of them did not know was practiced around them.
“Recently, we examined a woman who complained of pain in her genital region. We were shocked to see when we examined her that she had suffered some mutilation of her [...]
Interview from Waris Dirie with Jornal O Tempo / Internacional
Please find enclosed the interview from Waris Dirie with the Brazilian Newspaper JORNAL O TEMPO / INTERNACIONAL published on their „SPECIAL 15th-YEAR EDITION“ and at their online magazine:
http://www.otempo.com.br/noticias/ultimas/?IdNoticia=188388,OTE&busca=waris&pagina=1
FGM is still big in Kenya!
FGM is still big in Kenya!
Please read the following stories.
Article 1:
Hundreds of girls are believed to have crossed over to neighbouring Tanzania for fear of being forced to undergo FGM.
Article 2:
Pokot Girls being circumcised secretly.
Classrooms in London Schools tackle genital mutilation with video supported by Waris Dirie.
Each year 6.500 girls in central London could undergo FGM.
Classrooms in London Schools tackle genital mutilation with video supported by Waris Dirie.
http://warisdirie.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/press-review-waris-dirie-supports-uk-police-campaign-against-fgm/
Just read the current story here:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15546779,00.html
