Last month, Nigeria hosted the 13th Annual Technical Consultation of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Joint Programme on the Elimination of ...
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New study highlights multiple long-term health complications from female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects almost all dimensions of the health of women and girls, according to a new study published today from the World Health Organization (WHO) together with the ...
What works to prevent female genital mutilation? UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight examines the evidence to identify successful strategies. Young girls meet for a girls' ...
The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been observed on 6 February each year since its establishment by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. The Day is ...
Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice. Here's how to help. On Feb. 6, 2023, just months before the outbreak of ...
Tuesday, 6 February, 2024 was this year’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In commemoration of the day, the Director-General of the World Health Organization ...
Accra, Feb. 6, GNA – The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has reaffirmed Ghana’s commitment to ending Female ...
She wasn’t sick. She wasn’t in danger. She was born a girl, and that was enough. In parts of the world today, being a girl still comes with one of the most brutal rites imaginable: Female genital ...
An estimated 230 million women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), which involves injury to the external genital organs for nonmedical reasons. According to the World Health ...
Gambia's Supreme Court is considering whether a law protecting women and girls from female genital mutilation (FGM) is constitutional. The practice, common in Gambia, often involves forcibly ...
Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women and girls. It’s practised in at least 25 African countries, as well as parts ...
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