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

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

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

Other forms of female genital mutilation

ii. Policy to combat genital mutilation

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

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)

Female genital mutilation is a coming of age ritual in some societies.

Was the Government making an effort to prevent female genital mutilation through awareness raising?

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.

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.

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.

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

The Government was training women in the field to alert other women to the existence of legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation.

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.

NAIROBI As a child in rural Kenya, I was a secret admirer 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).

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,

Lastly, she enquired about the success of the newly adopted Children's Act 2005, and about its provisions with regard to female genital mutilation.

Female genital mutilation was included among the harmful traditional practices prohibited by the Act but it was not specifically named.

Welcomes the progress made in combating harmful traditional practices, including female genital mutilation, through the impetus of non governmental organizations, in particular the Inter African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, which should be given maximum encouragement

(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

Speakers underlined the success in girls' enrolment, and in the fight against child labour and trafficking and female genital mutilation.

The Government continued its involvement in the campaign to eradicate female genital mutilation by working in the community to raise consciousness about the problem.

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.

Mr. Taal (Gambia) said that in Gambia, which was a haven for refugees from other countries of the region, female genital mutilation was an important topic.

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

Ms. Coker Appiah also stressed the need for measures to ensure the effective implementation of the Code on the Person and the Family and legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation.

In addition, the new Children's Act, which, inter alia, prohibited female genital mutilation, had been enacted in June 2005 and was awaiting Presidential assent.

(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

For example, female genital mutilation amounted to criminal assault on a child. She felt sure that if such a serious assault had been made on male children, it would have been taken more seriously.

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.