News Female Genital Mutilation Health

• Erroneous Belief Systems Underlying Female Genital Mutilation in Sub-Saharan Africa - Speech presented by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein at The Third International Symposium on Circumcision, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland May 22-25, 1994.
  
• Female Genital Mutilation and Human Rights - An essay, by Lisa Donaldson, discussing this practice in the 21st century.
  
• Female Genital Mutilation: Strategies For Eradication - by Fran P. Hosken. Article discusses how female genital mutilation continues to be practiced in Africa, Indonesia and Malaysia among Moslem populations.
  
• Female Genital Cutting - Information and resources about the cultural practice of partly or totally removing portions of the external female genitalia.
  
• Excision Practiced Where Pre-Islamic Traditions Strongest - Integrated Regional Information Networks article about the persistence of the practice of female circumcision in Mali.
  
• Senegal bans female circumcision - BBC News Online - Dec 23, 1998 - Senegal has banned female circumcision on cultural or religious grounds. Anybody found practising circumcision on girls now faces up to five years in prison.
  
• NPR : Genital Mutilation Can Be Grounds for Asylum Status, Court Rules - A US appeals court ruling in favor of a young Somali woman says that a history of genital mutilation makes a woman automatically eligible for asylum in the U.S. [2:48 streaming audio broadcast]
  
• Islam and Female Circumcision - By Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. - Minaret of Freedom Institute. Brief article discussing religion and female genital mutilation.
  
• afrol News - FGM - Analyses, facts and regularly updated news on female genital mutilation in Africa.
  
• Female Genital Mutilation - Articles at ReligiousTolerance.org, about the practice in some African and Muslim communities, and in North America and Europe.
  
• Epidemiology Of Female Sexual Castration In Cairo, Egypt - In 1985, a group of 350 urban Egyptian women were selected to self-report on their recall of their female sexual castration (FSC) which they experienced as children.
  
• Irin News: Boost for Anti-FGM Effort - United Nations humanitarian report from Kenya explains how a series of seminars resulted in the resignation two hundred practitioners of female genital mutilation. Includes outline of the cultural aspects.
  
• Tostan - An international non-governmental organization based in Senegal Africa geared toward educating the people and ending female genital cutting.
  
• Knuckleheaded Islamic Thought: Female Circumcision - An angry commentary.
  
• The Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking Project - Attempts to present the practice from a variety of perspectives and serve as a networking resource for organizations doing work related to FGC.
  
• NPR : Atlanta Female Circumcision Case Stirs Concern - The arrest of an Ethiopian citizen in Atlanta, Ga., raises concerns that female circumcision, a form of genital mutilation common in some African nations, is being performed on young women in the United States. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports. 5.5 minutes radio
  
• The Zero - Listings of national and international agencies, articles, organizations and web sites to find help for and information about female genital mutilation and female circumcision practices worldwide.
  
• Ashley Montagu Resolution to End Genital Mutilation of Children Worldwide: Petition to World Court - Solicits signatures for online petition against genital mutilation. Includes endorsements by prominent people and information on genital integrity, mutilation and human rights.
  
• Mutilated Humanity - by Ashley Montagu - The story of bodily mutilations would occupy a large volume in the story of humankind, and few would be more strange and interesting than those relating to male and female circumcision.
  
• Female Circumcision Issues Page - The World Health Organization has condemned the mutilations as disastrous to women's health and as indefensible on humane grounds. In the United States, Rep. Pat Schroeder has written a bill to prohibit female genital mutilation. H.R. 3247.
  
• Global Women Intact - Specializing in female circumcision, genital mutilation, and alternative ritual of passage information.
  
• Genital Mutilation & The United Nations: Male And Female Circumcision, Human Rights, & The Restoration Of Spiritual Integrity & Freedom - Presentation given by Anastasios Zavales about educating the world community about the practice of genital mutilation.
  
  

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