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19 Jul 2008 USA/AFRICA: African Women's Rights Discussed at Conference
19 Jul 2008 YEMEN: More Yemeni Women Favor Female Circumcision, Shows Study
19 Jul 2008 GERMANY/TOGO: German NGO Backs Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation in Togo
19 Jul 2008 UK: Ruth Rendell Speaks Out Against Female Genital Mutilation
09 Jul 2008 UGANDA: Genital Mutilation - Women Grapple With a Deadly Tradition
09 Jul 2008 YEMEN: Government Body Moves to Stem Female Genital Mutilation
09 Jul 2008 UGANDA: MPs Want Female Circumcision Banned
09 Jul 2008 SWITZERLAND: Parents Convicted of Genital Mutilation
09 Jul 2008 FRANCE/WEST AFRICA: West Africans Fight Female Genital Mutilation in France
27 Jun 2008 WORLD: Free Speech Dies at the UN
27 Jun 2008 YEMEN: MPS Say: No To Genital Mutilation, 18 Is Minimum Marriage Age, Juveniles Cannot Be Punished As Adults
23 Jun 2008 UGANDA: Culture Killing Girls in Kapchorwa
23 Jun 2008 UGANDA: A Circumciser Drops The Brutal Knife
23 Jun 2008 KENYA: Where Child Marriages Thrive Unabated
22 Jun 2008 UK/AFRICA: Female Circumcision: A Tradition Steeped in Blood
22 Jun 2008 USA/GUINEA: A Victory For Women
22 Jun 2008 EGYPT: Stemming the Bloody Tide
22 Jun 2008 AFRICA: Speak Africa Campaign For No Violence Against Children And Youth Launched
22 Jun 2008 UGANDA: Sabini Women Shun Hospitals
22 Jun 2008 GHANA: Inhumane Aspects of Cultural Practices
22 Jun 2008 UGANDA: UN Agency in Anti-FGM Campaign
14 Jun 2008 UK: FORWARD Welcomes The House Of Lords' Renewed Interest
14 Jun 2008 EGYPT: The West Blamed Again as Egypt Moves to Ban Female Circumcision
14 Jun 2008 EGYPT: Egypt's Child Law Is Greeted With Stiff Opposition
14 Jun 2008 EGYPT: New Protections for Children's Rights in Egypt
14 Jun 2008 USA/GHANA: One Woman's Crusade
14 Jun 2008 USA: FGM Reason to Get Asylum in US
14 Jun 2008 DENMARK: Danish Couple Held For Mutilation
14 Jun 2008 USA: Court Rejects Decisions of Immigration Board
11 Jun 2008 UGANDA: Resisting the Cut
11 Jun 2008 IRELAND: Ireland Must Act on Mutilation
11 Jun 2008 NORWAY: Norway Arrest in Gambia Mutilation Case Raises Concerns
11 Jun 2008 SWITZERLAND: Court Rules in Case of Genital Cutting
31 May 2008 USA/KENYA: Massai Women Reach Milestone
31 May 2008 KENYA: Caro's Strong Spirit Gives Hope
31 May 2008 BURKINA FASO: Two From Sembene: Moolaade and Xala
31 May 2008 US: Should You Nip/Tuck Your Private Parts?
28 May 2008 SWITZERLAND/ANGOLA: Angola at 61st World Health Assembly
28 May 2008 USA/KENYA: Kennewick Woman to Speak on Mutilation
28 May 2008 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: "Our Daughters Have No Future"
28 May 2008 KENYA: This NGO's Doing a Commendable Job
28 May 2008 GAMBIA: Nineteen Ex-Circumcisers Received Benefits
28 May 2008 SOMALIA: Somali Women's Rights Activist Wins Roger Baldwin Award
18 May 2008 DJIBOUTI: First Country To Launch The Joint UNFPA/UNICEF Global Programe To Accelerate The Abandonment of FGM/C
18 May 2008 ISLAND: Nurse Calls For Island To Help African Victims
18 May 2008 MALI: Woman From Mali Who Underwent Circumcision Fights For Asylum
17 May 2008 USA: Court to Hear Genital Mutilation Asylum Case
12 May 2008 USA: Amnesty International Lobby Day on Capitol Hill Focused on Global Violence Against Women
12 May 2008 GHANA: African Government Urged to Promote African Values
12 May 2008 NIGERIA: NGO Restates Commitment to Reproductive Health
06 May 2008 CANADA: Activist MD Says Women Need to Support Each Other
06 May 2008 SIERRA LEONE: Paramount Chief Supports FGM
18 Apr 2008 FRANCE: Alps-Riviera Province in France Seeks to Eradicate Female Circumcision
18 Apr 2008 USA: Speaker to Address African Health Struggles
18 Apr 2008 YEMEN: Parliament Upholds Female Circumcision
18 Apr 2008 UK: Midwife Offers £500 for Return of Her Laptop
18 Apr 2008 US/KENYA: Mother's Misery Inspired Award Winner in US
18 Apr 2008 USA: V to the Tenth: Thousands of Women Gather in New Orleans for 10the Anniversary of Global Movement to Combat Violence Against Women
18 Apr 2008 USA: The Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards Winners Announced
18 Apr 2008 KENYA: Kenyan Honoured for Raising Funds
12 Apr 2008 Email problems
08 Apr 2008 SOMALIA: Raising Awareness Against FGM In Puntland
08 Apr 2008 TANZANIA: Bravo, TAMWA, For Searching For Women Activists
08 Apr 2008 US: Conference Addresses Africa's Policy Problem
06 Apr 2008 SIERRA LEONE: To Cut Or Not To Cut - Should That Be A National Issue?
06 Apr 2008 US: Flying with Jennifer Fox
06 Apr 2008 TANZANIA: Genital Mutilators Lay Down Tools in Monduli
06 Apr 2008 EGYPT: A Battle Over Female Circumcision
30 Mar 2008 AUSTRALIA: Aussie Girls Face Cruel Ritual of Genital Mutilation
30 Mar 2008 UK: Commission Finds UK Asylum System Falls Bellow Civilised Standards
30 Mar 2008 ERITREA: Regional Conference Against Female Genital Mutilation Conducted in Asmara
30 Mar 2008 UGANDA: The Fight Against Female Circumcision
30 Mar 2008 IRELAND: Nigerian Family Win Last-Minute Fight to Halt Deportation
21 Mar 2008 GAMBIA: 75 Percent of Women Are Subject to FGM - Says Gamcotrap Coordinator
21 Mar 2008 A Compromise on Female "Circumcision"
21 Mar 2008 IRELAND: Nigerian Woman Lobbies Against Deportation
18 Mar 2008 SUDAN: Sudanese Bachelors Share Questions About FGM
18 Mar 2008 KENYA:Women's Resilience Is Laudable
17 Mar 2008 GHANA: Need to Uproot FHM from Ghana
17 Mar 2008 SOUTH AFRICA: 'Designer Vagina' Trend Comes to SA
17 Mar 2008 IRELAND: Mum Faces Deportation Despite Child Mutilation Claim
17 Mar 2008 GERMANY: A Change of Perspective in Favour of the Victims
17 Mar 2008 KENYA: In Kenya, a Refuge From Female Circumcision
12 Mar 2008 KENYA: Women Call For Concerted Effort to Fight Genital Mutilation
11 Mar 2008 USA: 'Asylum' Screening Sparks Debate
11 Mar 2008 BELGIUM: Supermodel Sorry for Disappearance
08 Mar 2008 BELGIUM: Ex-Model Waris Dirie Found in Brussels
06 Mar 2008 AUSTRALIA: Our Cause Matters to Women Everywhere
06 Mar 2008 Women's Commission Hears Introduction of Texts on Women and Child Hostages, HIV/AIDS, Female Genital Mutilation, Palestinian Women
06 Mar 2008 AFRICA: Tradition at the Heart of Violence Against Women and Girls
06 Mar 2008 SOMALILAND: Female Genital Mutilation Still Common in Somaliland
06 Mar 2008 US: Alum Asks Mother to Rethink Dangerous Custom
06 Mar 2008 TANZANIA: A Tall Tribe Caught Short by Change
06 Mar 2008 SIERRA LEONE: Cultural Practices Buttress S. Leone Poverty - UN
06 Mar 2008 UK: 'Time to Stop' Abuse of Girls
04 Mar 2008 UNICEF: 140 Million Women, Girls Suffer Genital Mutilation
04 Mar 2008 UK: University College London to Screen Moolaade Movie
04 Mar 2008 FRANCE: Katoucha's Body Found?
04 Mar 2008 UN Backs Push to End Female Circumcision
04 Mar 2008 US: UN Launches campaign to Fight Violence Against Women
04 Mar 2008 SIERRA LEONE: Women Plan Protest For Bondo
04 Mar 2008 SIERRA LEONE: New Sierra Leone Government Vows to Ban Female Circumcision
04 Mar 2008 UGANDA: Legislators Join Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation
24 Feb 2008 GUINEA BISSAU: Muslims in Bissau Opposed to Debate in Parlament on FGM
24 Feb 2008 The Hazard of Politically Correct Research
23 Feb 2008 GHANA: Bongo Traditional Area Ban Dehumanising Widowhood Rites
23 Feb 2008 GHANA: FGM Will Be Eradicated in 2025 - Women Group
23 Feb 2008 SIERRA LEONE: UN Fights Female Genital Mutilation in Sierra Leone
23 Feb 2008 UGANDA: Legislators Join Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation
23 Feb 2008 Raelins Rocket From Clones to Clitorises
23 Feb 2008 UK: City Children Face Illegal Circumcision
23 Feb 2008 UK: The Last Female Taboo
23 Feb 2008 Female Genital Mutilation Gaining International Sympathy
23 Feb 2008 RWANDA: Rwandan Women View the Elongation of Their Labia as Positive
23 Feb 2008 IRELAND: New Irish Funds to Combat Female Genital Mutilation
23 Feb 2008 NIGER: Fall in Rate of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
21 Feb 2008 MAURITANIA: Mauritania's Observes Day of Zero Tolerance on Female Genital Mutilation
21 Feb 2008 Eastern Eyes
21 Feb 2008 3 Million Women Circumcised Annually - UNFPA Protests
21 Feb 2008 MALI: Children at the Forefront of Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation
18 Feb 2008 UN Sees Progress in Ending Female Genital Mutilation
18 Feb 2008 US: USAID Assistant Administrator for Global Health
18 Feb 2008 Model Liya Kebede to Star in 'Flower'
18 Feb 2008 International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation
18 Feb 2008 SOMALIA: UN Calls on Authorities to End Female Genital Mutilation
18 Feb 2008 UNFPA Calls on Governments to End Female Genital Mutilation
18 Feb 2008 SIERRA LEONE: Islam Not In Favour of FGM - Says Iranian Consul
11 Feb 2008 SIERRA LEONE: Women in the Media Sierra Leone Want FGM Banned
11 Feb 2008 FRANCE/GUINEA: Paris Police Seek Missing Model, Former Saint Laurent Muse
11 Feb 2008 UK: School Role in War on Abuse
11 Feb 2008 SOMALIA: Somali Refigee Honoured
11 Feb 2008 CAMEROON: Zero Tolerance on Female Circumcision
08 Feb 2008 UK: Hundreds of Liverpool Girls 'Mutilated' in African Ritual
07 Feb 2008 SIERRA LEONE: Islam Not in Favout of FGM - Says Iranian Consul
07 Feb 2008 CAMEROON: Never Without My FGM
07 Feb 2008 NIGER: Female Circumcision Drops By Half in Niger
07 Feb 2008 UN Agency Marks International Day With Call For Ending Female Genital Mutilation
07 Feb 2008 GHANA: FGM Still Prevalent in Ghana
07 Feb 2008 UGANDA: End Female Genital Mutilation
07 Feb 2008 UGANDA: UN Calls For End To Female Mutilation
07 Feb 2008 SWITZERLAND: Renewed Fight Against FGM
07 Feb 2008 UK: Hundreds of Liverpool Girls 'Mutilated' in African Ritual
07 Feb 2008 UK: Horror of 'Tradition'
07 Feb 2008 SIERRA LEONE: SLeone Government to Ban Female Circumcision: Minister
04 Feb 2008 UGANDA: UN Urges Against Female Circumcision
03 Feb 2008 IRELAND: Nigerian woman loses battle against deportation
01 Feb 2008 TANZANIA: Balancing Tolerance and Tradition
01 Feb 2008 TANZANIA: In Tanzania, a Maasai Girl Escapes to Education
01 Feb 2008 FGM, Vaginoplasty and the Flawed Female
01 Feb 2008 '113m Women Circumcised Yearly'
01 Feb 2008 Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?
26 Jan 2008 W.H.O. Responds on F.G.M
23 Jan 2008 GHANA: Media Practitioners Urged to Report More on Social Issues
23 Jan 2008 SUDAN: HIV Rate Is Mostly Guesswork
23 Jan 2008 USA: Controversial Psychology Professor To Speak At The Chicago Cultural Centre
23 Jan 2008 SPAIN: Spanish Judge Tries To Protect Girl From Genital Mutilation
21 Jan 2008 INDONESIA: A Cutting Tradition
20 Jan 2008 FGM Practitioners To Serve Prison Terms
20 Jan 2008 UGANDA: We Escaped Female Circumcision
20 Jan 2008 ITALY: Sexual Consequences of Female Initiation Rites in Africa
17 Jan 2008 USA: In Dallas, Female Kenyan Activists Fear For Homeland
12 Jan 2008 My Path To Renewal
11 Jan 2008 USA: Genital Mutilation Is Illegal
11 Jan 2008 KENYA: War Against Harmful Culture Far From Won in Maasailand
11 Jan 2008 Designer vaginas, anyone?
11 Jan 2008 UGANDA: Sights And Sounds of Kapchorwa
07 Jan 2008 SOUTH AFRICA: SA Film Selected For PAFF
07 Jan 2008 KURDISTAN: An End to Female Genital Cutting?
04 Jan 2008 UK: The Unspeakable Practice of Female Circumcision That's Destroying Young Women's Lives in Britain
30 Dec 2007 BURKINA FASO: How to End Female Circumcisions
27 Dec 2007 KENYA: Girls' Education in Great Danger in the Strife-Torn Kuresoi Area
23 Dec 2007 KENYA: Parents Force 150 Girls to Undergo 'Cut' in District
23 Dec 2007 KENYA: Kenyan Girls Fearing Holiday Circumcision
16 Dec 2007 UGANDA: HIV/Aids Cases Increase in Kapchorwa
16 Dec 2007 EGYPT: Islamic Scholar Opposes Ban on Female Circumcision
16 Dec 2007 NETHERLANDS: Dutch Imams Speak Out Against Female Circumcision
15 Dec 2007 UGANDA: Kapchorwa District Seeks to End Female Circumcision
15 Dec 2007 GUINEA BISSAU: In Guiea-Bissau, a Victim of Female Genital Mutilation/Cuttin Calls for its End
10 Dec 2007 UGANDA: Circumcised Women Shun Hospitals
09 Dec 2007 CAMEROON: US Ambassador Urges Gov't to Criminalise Female Genital Mutilation
09 Dec 2007 "Circumcision" or "Mutilation"? And Other Questions About a Rite in Africa
09 Dec 2007 KENYA: Girl in Hospital After Forced Cut
06 Dec 2007 Multicultural Feminists Seeks to Normalize Female Circumcision
06 Dec 2007 USA: A New Debate on Female Circumcision
28 Nov 2007 LIBERIA: "Rejuvenate Societal Values"
28 Nov 2007 KENYA: Joining the Fight Against Gender-Based Violence
28 Nov 2007 KENYA: Stop the Cut or Face Law, Parents Told
28 Nov 2007 CAMEROON: Traditions that Torture
28 Nov 2007 SENEGAL: Walking Away From the Past
28 Nov 2007 UN's Call to End Violence Against Women
28 Nov 2007 ETHIOPIA: Journalist Against FGM
27 Nov 2007 SUDAN: Sudanese Women - Towards Ending Violence and Discrimination
27 Nov 2007 KURDISTAN: Draft for a Law Prohibiting Female Genital Mutilationis Submitted to the Kurdish Regional Parliament
21 Nov 2007 KENYA: Kenya Records Drop in Female Cut Cases
21 Nov 2007 The Convention on the Rights of the Child Comes of Age
20 Nov 2007 CAMEROON: Law Against Female Circumcision
20 Nov 2007 EGYPT: Final Cut
20 Nov 2007 TANZANIA: The Link Between Female Genital Mutilation And HIV Transmission
14 Nov 2007 NIGERIA: Maternal Death: Task For Traditional Rulers
14 Nov 2007 GUINEA BISSAU: In Guinea-Bissau, a Victim of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Calls for Its End
12 Nov 2007 UK: No Borders Anti-Deportation Stall, 10/11 Cardiff
12 Nov 2007 KENYA: Kenyan Student Honoured in the US
06 Nov 2007 COTE D'IVOIRE: Fighting FGM From Mosque and Pulpit
06 Nov 2007 NIGERIA: NGO Urges Chime to Sign Bill on Female Genital Mutilation
05 Nov 2007 US/MALI: Drawing a Line Between Enduring Harm and Legitimate Fear
03 Nov 2007 USA: Senators Biden and Lugar Introduce the International Violence Against Women Act
03 Nov 2007 KENYA: Fistula Affects 5,000 Women At Delivery
31 Oct 2007 GHANA: Getting to Grips With 'Culture'
28 Oct 2007 NIGERIA: Workshop Urges Gov to Assent to Law Protecting Women
27 Oct 2007 NETHERLANDS/USA: Litmus Test
27 Oct 2007 CAMEROON: Using Films to Condemn Barbaric Traditions
27 Oct 2007 Grandmother Project Uses Elders to Help Educate Community on Health Issues
25 Oct 2007 NIGERIA: Traditional Birth Attendants Advocate Ending Harmful Practices
22 Oct 2007 EGYPT: Egypt's Fight Against Female Circumcision Clashes With Tradition
19 Oct 2007 SENEGAL: Female Circumcision Down in Senegal
18 Oct 2007 BURKINA FASO: Burkina Faso Salutes "Africa's Che" Thomas Sankara
12 Oct 2007 KENYA: Woman Quits Job to Wage War Against the Cut
10 Oct 2007 UK: 21,000 Girls at Risk of Genital Mutilation, Say Campaigners
09 Oct 2007 USA: The Veiled Monologues
06 Oct 2007 KENYA: Female Cut Is Uncivilised
05 Oct 2007 EGYPT: Egypt Resists Genital Mutilation
05 Oct 2007 Study Guide for "Born in the Big Rains" by Fadumo Korn
01 Oct 2007 EGYPT: International Herald Tribune Examines Movement Against Female Genital Cutting in Egypt
27 Sep 2007 KENYA: Knife and illiteracy threaten daughters of tobacco country
25 Sep 2007 BOOK REVIEW: “Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan” by Janice Boddy
24 Sep 2007 ANNOUCEMENT: Help us come up with a new name
23 Sep 2007 EGYPT: Foes of female circumcision gain support: Subject is no longer taboo in Egypt, where 96% of women have had procedure
23 Sep 2007 ANNOUNCEMENT: Please bear with us
23 Sep 2007 EGYPT: New York Times feature slideshow
23 Sep 2007 EGYPT: Egypt gripped by female circumcision debate
23 Sep 2007 EGYPT: UNICEF: Egypt among leading nations battling female circumcision
23 Sep 2007 EGYPT: Female circumcision focus of ferocious debate in Egypt
08 Sep 2007 FINLAND: Fewer Operations To Fix Damage From "Female Circumcision" At Public Health Clinics
08 Sep 2007 SIERRA LEONE: FGM Practitioners Sway Elections in Sierra Leone
08 Sep 2007 KENYA: 'Female Circumcision Not Linked To Islam'
08 Sep 2007 SWEDEN: Ombudsman Sues Over Forced Exam
05 Sep 2007 EGYPT: Doctors Face Trial Over Female Circumcision
05 Sep 2007 SWEDEN: Girl Tested for Circumcision 'Because She Was Somalian'
02 Sep 2007 IRELAND: Doctors Urged to Report Female Genital Mutilation
28 Aug 2007 GUINEA BISSAU: Two Thousand Girls a Year Suffer Genital Mutilation
26 Aug 2007 CANADA/SUDAN: Cautious Criticism
26 Aug 2007 UN: UN Agencies Unveil Initiative to Reduce Female Genital Mutilation
22 Aug 2007 BURKINA FASO: Genital Surgery Helps Burkina's Mutilated Women
22 Aug 2007 SENEGAL: Alumna Nets Humanitarian Grant Worth $1.5 Million for Africa Work
21 Aug 2007 EGYPT: Egypt Death Sparks Debate on Female Circumcision
21 Aug 2007 Some Facts on Female Circumcision
18 Aug 2007 EGYPT: Egyptian Woman Held After Near-Fatal Female Circumcision
17 Aug 2007 AUSTRALIA: Hanson Cites Bible Urination as Reason to Stop Immigration
17 Aug 2007 ETHIOPIA: Religious and Traditional Leaders Called Upon to Help End Female Genital Cutting
17 Aug 2007 EGYPT: Genital Mutilation Persists in Egypt
17 Aug 2007 Kenya/USA: FBI Called to Probe Killing of Citizens in U.S.
17 Aug 2007 EGYPT: Cairo MPs Ponder Tougher FGM Laws
16 Aug 2007 SENEGAL: African Aid Group Wins Hilton Prize For Campaigning Against Female Circumcision
16 Aug 2007 EGYPT: Egyptian Girl Dies From Circumcision
16 Aug 2007 EGYPT: 13-Year-Old Egyptian Girl Dies From Circumcision Operation
16 Aug 2007 UN: UN On a Drive to Reduce Female Genital Mutilation
16 Aug 2007 NORWAY: Norway Grants NOK 20 Million Against Sex Mutilation
16 Aug 2007 SIERRA LEONE: Most Sierra Leone Parliamentary, Presidential Candidates Unwillling to Speak Against Female Genital Cutting
16 Aug 2007 SENEGAL: FGM Continues 10 Years After Villagers Claim to Abandon It
12 Aug 2007 SIERRA LEONE: A Women's Issue That Women Are Wary of Campaining About
12 Aug 2007 NORWAY/UN: Norway Pledges Funds to Help UN Fight Female Circumcision
10 Aug 2007 SIERRA LEONE: 'They Just Cut You, And There's Not Much Problem With That'
07 Aug 2007 NIGERIA: Female Circumcision: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?
07 Aug 2007 UK: New FGM Worry
07 Aug 2007 WEST AFRICA: Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation Not Targeting Culture: NGO
07 Aug 2007 ETHIOPIA: FGM Declaration Call on Religious and Traditional Leaders to Educate Members
07 Aug 2007 PROFILE: Waris Dirie
05 Aug 2007 SOMALIA: Female Mutilation
04 Aug 2007 ETHIOPIA: Female Mutilation in the Spotlight
04 Aug 2007 ETHIOPIA: Conference on Female Genital Cutting Opens in Addis Ababa
04 Aug 2007 ETHIOPIA: Country Urged to Take Strong Action to Stop FGM
04 Aug 2007 ETHIOPIA: Female Circumcision Declines in Southern Region
31 Jul 2007 CANADA/GUINEA: Guinea Woman Savors Victory in Hard-Won FGM Case
29 Jul 2007 UGANDA: Working Towards a Better Humanity
25 Jul 2007 AUSTRALIA: 'You Suppress The Pain'
21 Jul 2007 MAURITANIA: It Is Not Circumcision
21 Jul 2007 NORWAY/EUROPE: Female 'Cut' Exported To Europe
21 Jul 2007 EGYPT: Female Circumcision Holds Sway In Egypt.
20 Jul 2007 UK: Female Genital Mutilation Arrest
19 Jul 2007 UGANDA: AG Rules On Female Genital Mutilation
18 Jul 2007 BURKINA FASO: Surgery Helps Women Recover From Female Genital Mutilation
14 Jul 2007 UK: Exposing Child Abuse In The Name Of Religion
12 Jul 2007 AFRICA: Old And New States Of Women's Rights In Africa
12 Jul 2007 UK: Waris Dirie Campaigns To Stop Female Genital Mutilation, Circumcision
11 Jul 2007 UK: Female Genital Mutilation On The Rise In Britain
11 Jul 2007 UK: 'My Mother Held Me Down'
11 Jul 2007 KENYA: US, Kenya Partner To End Female 'Cut'
11 Jul 2007 EGYPT: Egypt Fights Genital Mutilation
11 Jul 2007 EGYPT: Egypt Mufti Defends Ban On Female Genital Cutting
03 Jul 2007 EGYPT: Egypt Forbids Female Circumcision
30 Jun 2007 NORWAY: Politicians Try To 'Do Something' To Stop Female Circumcision
30 Jun 2007 EGYPT/AFRICA: Girl Dies After Genital Mutilation
30 Jun 2007 NORWAY: Norway Cracks Down on Female Circumcision Abroad
30 Jun 2007 NORWAY: Mutilated Females Seek Help
30 Jun 2007 EGYPT: Egypt Strengthens Ban on Female Genital Cutting
28 Jun 2007 NORWAY: Renewed Uproar Over Female Circumcision
27 Jun 2007 UGANDA: Genital Mutilation Legal - AG
26 Jun 2007 SOMALIA: Somaliland now centre for illegal female cutting
26 Jun 2007 EGYPT: Girl dies undergoing FGM in Egypt
25 Jun 2007 EGYPT: Mufti forbids circumcision
25 Jun 2007 EGYPT: Young Girl Dies During Circumcision
20 Jun 2007 ERITREA: Circumcision in Eritrea: Custom trumps law
20 Jun 2007 SENEGAL/GAMBIA: Senegal, Gambia villages give up female circumcision
20 Jun 2007 KENYA:Kenyan Muslims condemn FGM
14 Apr 2007 NORWAY: Kadra attacked in public
04 Mar 2007 EGYPT: Al-Azhar University Scholars Argue over the Legitimacy of Female Circumcision Practiced in Egypt on Al-Arabiya TV
04 Mar 2007 KENYA: Making Headway With the HIV Message in Refugee Camps
04 Mar 2007 NIGERIA: Female Genital Mutilation
19 Feb 2007 UGANDA: Female circumcision hurts women’s dignity
15 Feb 2007 ERITREA: Campaign against FGM ‘is working’
15 Feb 2007 PUBLICATION: Cutting to the Core
15 Feb 2007 MALI: Female Circumcision Flourishes
13 Feb 2007 UK: The RCM tackles Female Genital Mutilation
13 Feb 2007 TANZANIA: Anti-FGM activists asked to unite
12 Feb 2007 GENERAL: Female circumcision not just African issue
12 Feb 2007 YEMEN: 24 percent of Yemeni women experience genital mutilation
12 Feb 2007 NORWAY: Illegal Female Circumcision in Norway
11 Feb 2007 USA: Rites and wrongs: Is outlawing female genital mutilation enough to stop it from happening here?
11 Feb 2007 AFRICA: Parents turn to clinics for genital mutilation: U.N.
10 Feb 2007 ERITREA: Efforts to Do Away With Female Circumcision Show Encouraging Outcome
10 Feb 2007 UNITED STATES (SOMALIA): Critic of Islam Finds New Home in U.S.
08 Feb 2007 UNITED NATIONS: Parents turn to clinics for genital mutilation
08 Feb 2007 NIGERIA: Female circumcision in Igboland
21 Dec 2006 UGANDA: Wanted Surgeons Go Into Hiding
13 Dec 2006 UGANDA: Seven districts fight female circumcision
12 Dec 2006 GHANA: Banda Girls Demonstrate Against Fgm
12 Dec 2006 ERITREA: NUEW Chairperson Conducts Seminar in Assab
12 Dec 2006 CAMEROON: Female Circumcision Persists Despite Sensitisation
11 Dec 2006 TANZANIA: FGM on the decline, study shows
11 Dec 2006 YEMEN: Females fight ritual mutilation
08 Dec 2006 CANADA: Woman fears for life if deported
07 Dec 2006 KENYA: Maendeleo Ya Wanaume is Welcome
07 Dec 2006 EGYPT: Theologians Battle Female Circumcision
01 Dec 2006 EGYPT: Controversial film fails to hit screens
01 Dec 2006 UK: Female Genital Mutilation not Islamic - say Top Egyptian clerics
01 Dec 2006 EGYPT: Will FGM Fatwa Make a Difference?
01 Dec 2006 UGANDA: Anti-FGM activists face hostility
01 Dec 2006 DAKAR: UN Raises Awareness on Gender Violence in Africa
01 Dec 2006 EGYPT: Muslim scholars rule female circumcision un-Islamic
01 Dec 2006 EGYPT: Clerics join anti-female circumcision moot
01 Dec 2006 EGYPT: Authorities urged to end female genital mutilation
01 Dec 2006 EGYPT: Call to end female circumcision
01 Dec 2006 EGYPT: Muslims speak out against female circumcision
01 Dec 2006 EGYPT: Rare anti-female circumcision conference held
01 Dec 2006 KENYA: Maendeleo - What's in Store?
01 Dec 2006 ETHIOPIA: Ethiopians protest US jailing for genital mutilation
01 Dec 2006 ETHIOPIA: Khalid Ahmed - From Addis Ababa to a Prison Cell in Gwinnett County
01 Dec 2006 MALTA: Coleiro proposes ban on genital mutilation
01 Dec 2006 ETHIOPIA: Ethiopians support man in genital mutilation
01 Dec 2006 ETHIOPIA: US verdict: Ethiopians march
01 Dec 2006 NIGER: Girls rue lost educations in impoverished Niger
26 Nov 2006 SOMALIA: Somali Bantu Find Strange New Life in Urban U.S.
08 Nov 2006 ZIMBABWE: Yes, Be Proudly African, but Be Proudly Anti-FGM too
06 Nov 2006 AMSTERDAM: Alienation amid Dutch: A look at unmoored Muslims in the wake of van Gogh's murder
06 Nov 2006 NEW SOUTH WALES: MP says female circumcisions carried out in NSW
04 Nov 2006 AUSTRALIA: Girls mutilated for 'tradition'
04 Nov 2006 QATAR: Genital mutilation punished for the first time in US
04 Nov 2006 AFRICAN NEWS: US circumcision jailing fires debate in Africa
04 Nov 2006 UNITED STATES: Dad sentenced in first female genital cutting trial in U.S.
04 Nov 2006 ETHIOPIA: U.S. female mutilation case fuels hot debate in Africa
04 Nov 2006 UNITED STATES: Circumcision Case Goes to Jury
04 Nov 2006 UNITED STATES: Female circumcision trial may be first in U.S.
22 Oct 2006 UK: Lords grant asylum to woman in fear of circumcision
22 Oct 2006 SWEDEN: Sweden's Muslim minister turns on veil
22 Oct 2006 US: ATLANTA, GA: Dad stands trial over daughter's mutilation
11 Oct 2006 INDONESIA: Indonesian Government Imposes Ban Against Female Genital Cutting
04 Oct 2006 ERITREA: Renewed efforts to outlaw female genital mutilation
04 Oct 2006 KENYA: Mungiki resurgence must be stopped
04 Oct 2006 EUROPE: Somali-born woman sentenced for violating female circumcision ban
24 Sep 2006 NETHERLANDS: Official OK with Islamic law in Netherlands
24 Sep 2006 ETHIOPIA: Committee on Rights of Child examines report of Ethiopia
24 Sep 2006 ETHIOPIA: Doing it for themselves
24 Sep 2006 REPORTS: US Department of State Reports on Human Rights (FGC Sections)
24 Sep 2006 Hirsi Ali: A refugee from Islam

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