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NPR : Nigerian Woman Challenges Mutilation Ritual
Reports on a Nigerian woman who is trying to have the practice of female genital mutilation accepted as a violation of the anti-torture convention. She is living illegally in Dallas, Texas, and fighting deportation with the claim that she and her 3-year-old daughter would likely be subjected to the mutilation ritual if repatriated to Nigeria. [4.5 minute Realaudio segment]
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.j...
afrol News - FGM
Analyses, facts and regularly updated news on female genital mutilation in Africa.
http://www.afrol.com/Categories/Women/FGM/
Female Genital Mutilation and Human Rights
An essay, by Lisa Donaldson, discussing this practice in the 21st century.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Easel/9509/g...
First lady celebrates African village that ended female circumcision
News Star Online - Apr 2, 1998 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, meeting with villagers who have ended the practice of female circumcision in their community, praised the village for having started "a great movement."
http://www.news-star.com/stories/040298/lf...
NPR : INS Fraud
Reports about a Ghanaian woman named Adelaide Abankwa who won political asylum in the US, based on her claim that she would be subject to female genital mutilation if she were returned home, but faces an Immigration and Naturalization Service charge that she lied about her identity and her fears of being tortured at home. [5 minute 40 second Realaudio segment]
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.j...
Excision Practiced Where Pre-Islamic Traditions Strongest
Integrated Regional Information Networks article about the persistence of the practice of female circumcision in Mali.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportI...
Ashley Montagu Resolution to End Genital Mutilation of Children Worldwide: Petition to World Court
Solicits signatures for online petition against genital mutilation. Includes endorsements by prominent people and information on genital integrity, mutilation and human rights.
http://montagunocircpetition.org/
Global Women Intact
Specializing in female circumcision, genital mutilation, and alternative ritual of passage information.
http://www.celebrateclitoris.com/
Female Circumcision Issues Page
The World Health Organization has condemned the mutilations as disastrous to womens health and as indefensible on humane grounds. In the United States, Rep. Pat Schroeder has written a bill to prohibit female genital mutilation. H.R. 3247.
http://www.eskimo.com/~gburlin/female.html
Female Genital Mutilation: Strategies For Eradication
by Fran P. Hosken. Article discusses how female genital mutilation continues to be practiced in Africa, Indonesia and Malaysia among Moslem populations.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/first/hoske...
NPR : Asylum and Genital Mutilation
About a Nigerian woman fighting deportation from the US, saying she needs to stay because her 10-year-old daughter, who is an American citizen, would be subject to genital mutilation if sent to Nigeria. [4:47 minute Realaudio segment]
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.j...
Epidemiology Of Female Sexual Castration In Cairo, Egypt
In 1985, a group of 350 urban Egyptian women were selected to self-report on their recall of their female sexual castration (FSC) which they experienced as children.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/first/badaw...
Project IDIL - Instruments to Develop the Integrity of Lasses
IDIL is a Daphne Programme project 2001/2003. The project is aimed at defining and experimenting strategies to prevent FGM among immigrant communities/families in Europe.
http://www.eu-idil.org
NPR : Mutilation - Asylum
Report on the story of Adelaide Abankwah, the second woman in U.S history to be granted political asylum because she feared she would be subjected to female genital mutilation if she returned to her native country. [4.5 minute Realaudio segment]
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.j...
The Zero
Listings of national and international agencies, articles, organizations and web sites to find help for and information about female genital mutilation and female circumcision practices worldwide.
http://www.vachss.com/help_text/female_g_m...
Female Genital Mutilation - A Human Rights Information Pack (1998)
from Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/femgen...
Irin News: Boost for Anti-FGM Effort
United Nations humanitarian report from Kenya explains how a series of seminars resulted in the resignation two hundred practitioners of female genital mutilation. Includes outline of the cultural aspects.
http://www.oneworld.net/external/?url=http...
Islam and Female Circumcision
By Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. - Minaret of Freedom Institute. Brief article discussing religion and female genital mutilation.
http://www.minaret.org/fgm.htm
Female Genital Mutilation
Articles at ReligiousTolerance.org, about the practice in some African and Muslim communities, and in North America and Europe.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/fem_circ...
Female Genital Mutilation
An introduction including what it is, countries that practise it, and a discussion on the religious influence, plus links.
http://www.members.tripod.com/~Wolvesdream...
NPR : Atlanta Female Circumcision Case Stirs Concern
The arrest of an Ethiopian citizen in Atlanta, Ga., raises concerns that female circumcision, a form of genital mutilation common in some African nations, is being performed on young women in the United States. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports. 5.5 minutes radio segment via Realplayer.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...
Mutilated Humanity
by Ashley Montagu - The story of bodily mutilations would occupy a large volume in the story of humankind, and few would be more strange and interesting than those relating to male and female circumcision.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/second/mont...
Erroneous Belief Systems Underlying Female Genital Mutilation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Speech presented by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein at The Third International Symposium on Circumcision, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland May 22-25, 1994.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/third/hanny...
Female Genital Cutting
Information and resources about the cultural practice of partly or totally removing portions of the external female genitalia.
http://womenshealth.gov/faq/easyread/fgc-e...
Stop FGM
A resource centre for FGM activists, written in English, French and Arabic.
http://www.stopfgm.org/
NPR : Genital Mutilation Can Be Grounds for Asylum Status, Court Rules
A US appeals court ruling in favor of a young Somali woman says that a history of genital mutilation makes a woman automatically eligible for asylum in the U.S. [2:48 streaming audio broadcast]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...
Senegal bans female circumcision
BBC News Online - Dec 23, 1998 - Senegal has banned female circumcision on cultural or religious grounds. Anybody found practising circumcision on girls now faces up to five years in prison.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/24...
Female Genital Mutilation
Amnesty International covers the topic of clitoridectomy, including procedures, why and where practiced, mental and physical effects on women.
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/femgen...
Rainbo
African-led international non-governmental organisation working on issues of women's empowerment, sexual autonomy, reproductive health, and freedom from violence, with a focus on female genital mutilation and women's rights to their bodily integrity.
http://www.rainbo.org/
Knuckleheaded Islamic Thought: Female Circumcision
An angry commentary.
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/circumcisio...
Tostan
An international non-governmental organization based in Senegal Africa geared toward educating the people and ending female genital cutting.
http://www.tostan.org
Genital Mutilation & The United Nations: Male And Female Circumcision, Human Rights, & The Restoration Of Spiritual Integrity & Freedom
Presentation given by Anastasios Zavales about educating the world community about the practice of genital mutilation.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/fourth/zava...
The Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking Project
Attempts to present the practice from a variety of perspectives and serve as a networking resource for organizations doing work related to FGC.
http://www.fgmnetwork.org/
NPWJ Stop Female Genital Mutilation Campaign
International campaign to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation.
http://www.stopfgm.org/stopfgm/FGMappeal/a...
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