Female genital mutilation.

Other forms of female genital mutilation

General Recommendation 14 dealing with female genital mutilation

This law prohibits all forms of female genital mutilation.

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

Combating female genital mutilation is an important aspect of reproductive health.

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

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

The National Strategic Plan to Combat Female Genital Mutilation (MASPFE CPTAFE) 2001 2010.

The Operational Plan of Action against Female Genital Mutilation (MASPFE CPTAFE) 2000 2002.

(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

Persistence of harmful sociocultural factors (early marriage and pregnancy, female genital mutilation, nutritional taboos).

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

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

There is no definite information on the existence of female genital mutilation in Pakistan.

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

Palestinian blogger Haitham Sabbah discusses female genital mutilation in Egypt and other African countries this post.

NAIROBI As a child in rural Kenya, I was a secret admirer of female genital mutilation.

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

The Government planned to promulgate legislation banning female genital mutilation, abduction and other harmful traditional practices.

Enactment and effective enforcement of laws that prohibit female genital mutilation and marriage of girl children.

The next report should clearly address the issue of female genital mutilation, if it existed in Gabon.

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

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

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

Female genital mutilation is a subject that is regularly raised in discussions with countries where it takes place.

These include domestic violence, sexual violence, sexual harassment, sexual abuse of children, trafficking in women, and female genital mutilation.

ii. Policy to combat genital mutilation

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

Traditional harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, abduction and early marriage, characterized the lives of various peoples within Ethiopia.

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

Recent data indicates over the last few years there were no reports of women who underwent female genital mutilation in Israel.

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

Attention should be drawn here to the remarkable efforts of the CPTAFE, which is working tirelessly to combat female genital mutilation.

Female genital mutilation is seen as a serious form of child abuse that is not acceptable and will not be tolerated.

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

Furthermore, the Government combated resolutely child mendicancy, female genital mutilation (FGM), HIV AIDS and violence against children in all its forms.

They also raised the issues of female genital mutilation and general violence against children, noting that these violations were often gender based.

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.

Of all the problematic cultural issues facing human rights organizations, female genital mutilation was one of the most difficult practices to eliminate.

Marwa Rakha, from Egypt, writes about an MP whose three young daughters have protested in favour of female genital mutilation in this post.

Having been circumcised herself at the age of seven, Gamal understood all too well the uselessness and harm of female genital mutilation (FGM).

UNICEF has also developed new indicators in the area of protection, for example for female genital mutilation cutting (FGM C), and child marriage.

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