1. Female genital mutilation (FGM) in all its forms is cruelty and abuse. The United Nations has decreed it a fundamental violation of human rights [a]. 2. FGM is practised in many parts of the world. The World Health Organisation estimates that some 140 million girls and women now alive...
Female Genital Mutilation: A Guide to Laws and Policies Worldwide This book is the product of collaboration between the Center for Reproductive Law and policy and the Research Action and Information Network for the Bodily... A Rahman,N Toubia - 《London England Zed Books》 被引量: 201发表: ...
Kisa, is now a peasant farmer and living in Bukwo, a part of Sebei where according to Law and Advocacy for Women in Uganda [Law-Uganda], up to 35 percent of girls endure FGM. The practice entails cutting off parts of a girl’s private parts and traditionally,...
I am asking that you take pause, reflect on the deep privilege you have knowing you and yours are safe from the harms of FGM and forced child marriage, that your daughters are protected by law and that you can help protect an unknown daughter by making a donation to Pastoralist Child Foun...
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Western heteronormativity, gender binarism, ageism, and the colonial association of protruding labia minora with animality contribute to body image insecurities and fuel the labiaplasty phenomenon, despite the ethical challenge that the procedures are clearly defined by the WHO as type II (a–c) femal...
produced this situation are complex, and, as the 2014 Report of the UK Parliament Home Affairs Select Committee1 (the ‘Vaz Report’) demonstrates, responsibility for upholding the law has frequently seemed to be regarded as someone else’s to resolve, whenever any public service professional is...
Chapter Seventeen –“The law against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) can scare people from performing FGM, but it doesn’t change their attitudes”: Findings of a qualitative study in Leeds, United Kingdom Olayemi Babajide, Abimbola Babajide and Bassey Ebenso ...
Although the law reduces the rate of FGM/C, it has also been found to drive the practice underground. In other instances, the law has led to parents subjecting girls to FGM/C at a younger age before they are susceptible to anti-FGM/C messages. There is also an association between law...
This course has been designed to help Safeguarding Professionals understand FGM, the law, the context in which it takes place and your safeguarding responsibility with regards to FGM. This app will increase all Safeguarding Professionals’ confidence in dealing with issues around FGM. It will also ...