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- Person-centred communication for female genital mutilation prevention: a facilitator’s guide for training health-care providers. Training aids (2022)
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- Too much pain - Female Genital Mutilation & Asylum in the European Union. A Statistical Overview (2013)
- Accelerating Change: UNFPA Response to Eliminate Cross-Border Female Genital Mutilation in East and Southern Africa (2022)
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Female genital mutilation is a harmful traditional practice that violates girls’ right to health
and overall well-being. Most research cites social acceptance, marriageability, community
belonging, proof of virginity, curbing promiscuity, hygiene, and religion as motivations for the
practice. I...
This handbook is for health care providers involved in the care of girls and women who have been subjected to any form of female genital mutilation (FGM). This includes obstetricians and gynaecologists, surgeons, general medical practitioners, midwives, nurses and other country-specific health profe...
Herausforderungen und Handlungsempfehlungen
In recognition that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is not only a harmful practice but a violation of human rights, Kenya has adopted a robust legal framework. The country has ratified several international legal instruments that have become part of the Kenyan law as provided for in Article 2 of the...
English and French version available
This brochure draws on data from more than 90 nationally representative surveys making it the most up-to-date compilation of statistics on FGM/C. Available data show that the practice of FGM/C is highly concentrated in a swath of countries from the Atlantic coast to the Horn of Africa, in areas of t...
(female genital mutilation Abk.: FGM)
UNICEF zufolge sind weltweit mehr als 200 Millionen Mädchen und Frauen von weiblicher Genitalverstümmelung betroffen – die meisten von ihnen leben in Afrika und im Mittleren Osten sowie in Indonesien. Wenn der Trend sich nicht ändert, sind 30 Millionen Mädchen potentiell gefährdet, vor ihrem ...
This report is a comprehensive statistical overview of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the 29 countries where the practice is concentrated. Analysis of the data reflects current perspectives on FGM/C, informed by the latest policy, programmatic and theoretical evidence.
Lessons from a decade of Progress
By 2050, nearly 1 in 3 births worldwide will occur in the
29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where FGM/C
is concentrated, and nearly 500 million more girls and
women will be living in these countries than there are today.
In Somalia alone, where FGM/C prevalence stands at 98
per cent, t...
A statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change
