Other forms of female genital mutilation

ii. Policy to combat genital mutilation

The rationale for removing it was that an enumeration which inadvertently left out some particular harmful practice might seem to be condoning such a practice.

International Conference on Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, Addis Ababa

In 2001 it submitted, for the fourth time, a resolution on combating female genital mutilation.

The issues of female genital mutilation and domestic violence as grounds for asylum are dealt with separately.

Female genital mutilation occurred only in border areas of the country.

International meeting on women's right to health and on female genital mutilation organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held in Sweden

The Netherlands continues to be active internationally in the fight against female genital mutilation.

The Committee recommends that the State party include detailed information in its next periodic report on the practice of female genital mutilation.

This study gives a number of recommendations for coherent policy on combating genital mutilation.

In response to the study, the Government presented its views on female genital mutilation to Parliament.

Government response to Strategies to prevent FGM (Parliamentary Papers, House of Representatives 29200 XV, no. 231).

(k) To promote men's understanding of their roles and responsibilities with regard to promoting the elimination of harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation

His death showed numerous injuries, including broken bones, gunshot wounds, burn marks, and mutilated genitals

There is specific focus on the risks associated with honour related violence and genital mutilation.

The extent of female genital mutilation among groups of African origin in the Netherlands is as yet unknown.

A study entitled Strategies to prevent female genital mutilation. Inventory and recommendations' was carried out by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Defence for Children International.

As a consequence, it will act as a support centre for organisations involved in preventing female genital mutilation (the focal point').

The Interim Supplement to the Aliens Act Implementation Guidelines (TBV 2003 48) recently set out policy on genital mutilation.

Delegates expressed the importance of having a strategy to address gender based violence, including female genital mutilation.

These efforts are all part of an attempt to broaden support for issues such as physical integrity and a ban on female genital mutilation.

(c) To collect and disseminate basic data about the occurrence of traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls, including female genital mutilation

Female genital mutilation.

Work is being carried out to address sexual and gender based violence against girls and women, as well as for the abandonment of the practice of female genital mutilation cutting (FGM C).

For several years running, the Netherlands submitted a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly against traditional practices that are harmful to the health of women and girls, such as female genital mutilation.

The organization lists its primary concerns as being rape, domestic violence, reproductive rights, trafficking of women, female genital mutilation, and equal access for women to economic opportunity and political participation.

Reaffirming that harmful traditional or customary practices, including female genital mutilation, constitute a serious threat to the health of women and girls, and may have fatal consequences,

(c) The work carried out by the Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation of the United Nations Population Fund and her continuing contribution to the campaign to eliminate female genital mutilation

Violence against women and girls occurs in the home, school and community in the form of neglect, infanticide, prenatal selection, harmful traditional practices such as FGM and sexual exploitation.

(c) Governments, organizations and individuals that are in a position to do so to contribute to the trust fund that supports the work of the Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation of the United Nations Population Fund

Also welcomes the many activities carried out in Africa by Governments and non governmental organizations, particularly in the context of the International Day of Zero Tolerance of Female Genital Mutilation (6 February)

In Egypt, the UNDP programme to end the practice of female genital mutilation' reached out to religious and traditional community leaders for collective action to guarantee an effective response.

It cannot be used on the face or genitalia.

The law against genital mutilation was now being enforced.

While welcoming the fact that female genital mutilation has been a criminal offence in the State party since 1998, the Committee is concerned that it is still a persistent practice in some ethnic communities (art.

(d) To develop, adopt and implement national legislation, policies, plans and programmes that prohibit traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls, including female genital mutilation, and to prosecute the perpetrators of such practices

(l) To continue to take specific measures to increase the capacity of communities, including immigrant and refugee communities, in which female genital mutilation is practised, to engage in activities aimed at preventing and eliminating such practices

UNICEF is developing a non coercive and non judgmental approach to FGM C and child marriage, based on human rights principles including the empowerment of girls and women.

She took it that the delegation conceded that female genital mutilation was not in line with the Covenant and was not protected under the sharia, and asked whether the Government intended to criminalize all forms of such mutilation.

Education for girls has a proven role in reducing poverty, improving the health of women and their children, preventing HIV AIDS, reducing incidents of harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and early marriage, and increasing self confidence.

There were no reports of arbitrary killings, extrajudicial executions or a pervasive pattern of gross human rights violations except in the area of female genital mutilation, which is widespread in the country.

Fungi multiplied. Orchids emerged, genitalia shaped to lure insects ...

Deeply concerned also that female genital mutilation is an irreparable, irreversible harmful practice that affects more than 130 million women and girls alive today, and that each year a further 2 million girls are at risk of undergoing the harmful procedure,

As reported to the Centre for Islamic Pluralism by the non governmental organization Stop FGM in Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, on 25 November, officially admitted the wide prevalence in the territory of female genital mutilation (FGM).