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African diplomat’s baby given FGM protection in UK

Diplomat’s wife protects her baby from FGM

The royal courts of justice in London. Neil Hall/Reuters

The baby daughter of a West African diplomat based in London has been given special protection after concerns were raised that she could be subjected to FGM, "The Guardian" reported.

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Egypt’s first convicted FGM doctor Fadl loses licence

FGM is a crime!

Suhair al-Bataa died after ungerdoing surgery

We reported on Raslan Fadl. He was Egypt’s first doctor to be convicted of performing FGM. In Egypt FGM was officially banned in 2008, but it is still widespread.

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The Desert Flower Center: „A big success!“

FGM-victim tells about reconstructive surgery

Since September 2013 our Desert Flower Center in Waldfriede hospital in Berlin offers reconstructuve surgeries for FGM victims. One of the patients wrote to us.

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There is no harmless mutilation!

Tolerance for FGM is ignorance of human rights

Now two US-gynaecologists in “Journal of Medical Ethics” argue that certain procedures of FGM ought to be tolerated by liberal societies.

Permitting this compromise would better protect girls and young women form the long term harms of the more severe forms of “female gential cutting”, they suggest.

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„FGM – my trauma“

A Kurdish woman speaks out on FGM

In 2003 our Desert Flower Foundation was the first organisation worldwide to report on the high prevalence rate of FGM among Kurdish women. Now German newspaper “Bild” has published a touching interview with a Kurdish woman.

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