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5/21/2004 - UN Report Finds Disturbing FGM Trend in West African Country
A new report states that while there has been a decline of female genital mutilation (FGM) on women in the West African country of Burkina Faso, there has been an increase in the number of young girls under the age of seven who are undergoing FGM....
2/25/2004 - Female Genital Cutting (FGC): An Introduction
by Marianne Sarkis
As you are reading this article, there are between eight and ten million women and girls in the Middle East and in Africa who are at risk of undergoing one form or another of genital cutting....
4/10/2003 - New Ritual Shifts Focus from FGM to Education
In Kenya, a program focusing on education and women's camaraderie is emerging as an alternative to the traditional rite of passage—female genital mutilation (FGM)....
2/10/2003 - Women’s Rights Activists Call for Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
Hundreds of women’s rights activists and four First Ladies from Africa gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 5 to call for an end to the barbaric practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)....
1/6/2003 - Deportation Stayed, African Immigrant Woman Avoids Possible Genital Mutilation
The US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay last Friday to Philomena Nwaokolo, a Nigerian immigrant living in Dallas who argued that she and her 3-year-old daughter would face the tortures of female genital mutilation (FGM) if they were deported....
12/13/2000 - Two Girls Win Unprecedented FGM Ban In Kenyan Court
In an unprecedented move, a court order was issued banning the genital mutilation of two teenage girls in one of Kenya’s Rift Province....
10/13/2000 - Precedence Set Against Female Genital Mutilation In Norway
Two Gambian Islamic religious leaders, including the leader of the Muslim Council in Oslo and a Somalian are facing prosecution for aiding and abetting female genital mutilation (FGM) in Norway....
8/18/2000 - Female Genital Mutilation Continues Underground in Tanzania
Those seeking to abolish female genital mutilation (FGM) in Tanzania confront new obstacles as communities practicing FGM begin to carry out the practice underground....
