Female genital mutilation.

ii. Policy to combat genital mutilation

Other forms of female genital mutilation

General Recommendation 14 dealing with female genital mutilation

They celebrated Lillian s mutilation, while I mourned her loss.

This law prohibits all forms of female genital mutilation.

The law against genital mutilation was now being enforced.

Symptoms during this time included paranoia, self mutilation and hallucinations.

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

(d) The reported perpetration of acts of mutilation and cannibalism in the Mambasa region

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

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

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.

Place of cultural rites such as rites of initiation and genital mutilation in early age

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

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

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.

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.

That document also banned all physical and psychological violence, mutilation, early or forced marriage and sexual harassment.

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

Unfortunately, violations of women's rights, in particular genital mutilation and domestic violence, continued to occur in Benin.

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 warrants include allegations of murder, abduction, sexual enslavement, mutilation, rape and the forced enlistment of children.

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.

I escaped mutilation, but other girls from my rural Kenyan community continue to receive the cut to this day.

Innocent people were murdered, with children, women, the elderly and the sick being subject to awful tortures and mutilation.

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

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