Category Archives: News
One FGM-patient a day in London´s hospitals
Recently published figures show real extent of FGM in Great Britain
LONDON – More than 2100 women and girls in London have sought hospital treatment for genital mutilation over the past six years. Therefore the extent of the suffering in Great Britain becomes obvious for the first time – meaning almost one woman a day. More [...]
Tunisians protest against the visit of FGM promoting cleric
Egypt sheikh promotes circumcision during his visit in Tunisia.
TUNIS/CAIRO – Last weekend hundreds of Tunisians protested against the visit of Islamic cleric Wagdy Ghonem near the capital Tunis. According to the Egyptian news website bikyamasr.com, Ghonem angered Tunisians strongly by promoting female genital mutilation and calling for Islamic law to be applied in [...]
Does FGM include genital piercings?
Debates about stricter legislation in Germany and Ireland for the protection of women
BERLIN/DUBLIN – Last thursday the German parliament discussed the first time about a proposed law from the German party Alliance 90/The Greens, according to which female genital mutilation (FGM) would be jugded as grievous bodily harm. As the Headquater for Political Education reports [...]
Journalist reveals extent of FGM in Pakistan
Against all assumptions: It´s not a marginal issue
KARACHI – “This is one of the country´s best kept secrets”, writes the Pakistani journalist Farahnaz Zahidi Moazzam in her blog on the website chaaidaani.wordpress.com last week. There she is talking about female genital mutilation (FGM), a problem, which was not located in Pakistan in that extent until [...]
Midviwes in UK not trained on FGM
After alarming results of a survey in UK – call to train midwives
LONDON – According to a new survey the awareness of female genital mutilation (FGM) needs to raise among midwives in the UK. As the news agency Press Association reports on nursingtimes.net a third of midwives in the UK are confronted with FGM, [...]
Kenya tops the list of 15 African countries which have majorly reduced cases of FGM
Kenya Tops drive against FGM
Summary: There is now a 25 percentage point differential in prevalence of the practice between Kenyans aged 15-19 and Kenyans aged 40-44, according to the report.
Kenya tops the list of 15 sub-Saharan countries that have drastically reduced cases of female circumcision, a UN report says.
The incidence of female circumcision fell by [...]
Another African Country joins global anti-FGM initiative
Uganda joins global anti-FGM initiative
The government of Uganda has joined an international initiative backed the United Nations [UN] to end the ancient practice of female genital mutilation [FGM] which is practiced by the Sabiny people of eastern Uganda and many other communities across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
The initiative is [...]
TOGETHER FOR AFRICAN WOMEN: the New Campaign 2012
TOGETHER FOR AFRICAN WOMEN: New Campaign 2012
In 2011, we started the campaign and project TOGETHER FOR AFRICAN WOMEN to improve
the lives of the women in Africa, to educate and empower them, to get them out of poverty and
dependency, to increase their self-esteem and confidence and teach them about the horrible
consequences, both physical and mental, of [...]
Waris Dirie in Luxembourg for the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation
Waris Dirie in Luxembourg for the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation
Waris Dirie was invited by the Fondation Follereau Luxembourg to attend the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation and completed a large program.
In the morning, Waris together with the Managing Director of the Desert Flower Foundation, Joanna Jasik met the Minister of Development Maria [...]
FGM is on decline in Africa, according to UN and UNFPA
2,000 More African Communities End Female Genital
Mutilation/Cutting in 2011
Almost 2,000 communities across Africa have abandoned female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in 2011. This brought the total number of communities renouncing the practice to 8,000 over the last few years, according to new findings by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and [...]
