The European Parliament met in November to discuss female genital mutilation, which is believed to be on the rise in Europe as the continent receives more immigrant families from African countries where female genital mutilation is practiced.
Despite this, female genital mutilation is specifically outlawed in only three European countries — Sweden, Norway and the […]
Preliminary results suggest that Burkina Faso’s campaign against female genital mutilation may be succeeding, at least in some parts of the country, in ending the practice.
In 1992, when Burkina Faso launched its anti-FGM campaign, as many as two-thirds of all women there were subjected to female genital mutilation. Recent surveys from 6 of Burkina […]
In August, Sudan pledged to ban female genital mutilation in that country.
According to a story carried by the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks,
At the end of a regional three-day symposium held last week in Khartoum, Health Minister Ahmed Osman Bilal expressed his government’s commitment to eradicate FGM at all levels, according to a summary […]
An Ethiopian immigrant living in Atlanta, Georgia, was recently charged in that state for allegedly mutilating the genitals of his 2-year-old daughter. In Ethiopia, female genital mutilation is believed to be widespread, with as many as 70-90 percent of adult women having been subjected to it.
Khalid Adem, 27, is accused of using a pair […]
The BBC had a brief item back in February about women in Kenya being assaulted by members of the Mungiki youth sect. The women were targeted because they were wearing trousers, and their assailants stripped them naked for this offense.
The Mungiki sect is an ascetic religious extremist group that, like many such groups these […]
This happened back in October but is an frightening example of the dangers of |female genital mutiliation|. At the end of October, 21 girls in Kenya had to be hospotailized due to serious infections they developed after being forced to undergo female circumcision.
The girls, aged 9 to 14, were pulled out of school by […]
In a speech on Kenya’s independence day, Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi promised to rigorously enforce a new law making female genital mutilation practices illegal on girls under 17. “Anyone found circumcising a girl of 16 will go straight to jail,” Moi said.
He also promised police protection for any young girl threatened with female […]
The BBC recently ran a profile of Amna Badri, a campaigner against female genital mutilation who herself was a victim of the practice at the age of six in Sudan.
Badri describes her own experience when she and her sister, then only five, were circumcised. Badri and her sister underwent the mildest form of female […]
A meeting of the European Union in Brussels attracted activists from Africa and the world to discuss what, if anything, Europe can do to work against female genital mutilation in Africa. Female genital mutilation typically involves removal of all or part of the clitoris, and sometimes other parts of the genitalia, without anaesthetic and […]