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- afrol News - FGM - - Analyses, facts and regularly updated news on female genital mutilation in Africa.
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- 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.
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- Female Genital Cutting - - Information and resources about the cultural practice of partly or totally removing portions of the external female genitalia.
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- Female Genital Mutilation - - Amnesty International covers the topic of clitoridectomy, including procedures, why and where practiced, mental and physical effects on women.
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- Female Genital Mutilation - - Articles at ReligiousTolerance.org, about the practice in some African and Muslim communities, and in North America and Europe.
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- Female Genital Mutilation - - An introduction including what it is, countries that practise it, and a discussion on the religious influence, plus links.
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- Global Women Intact - - Specializing in female circumcision, genital mutilation, and alternative ritual of passage information.
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- Islam and Female Circumcision - - By Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. - Minaret of Freedom Institute. Brief article discussing religion and female genital mutilation.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Stop FGM - - A resource centre for FGM activists, written in English, French and Arabic.
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- Tostan - - An international non-governmental organization based in Senegal Africa geared toward educating the people and ending female genital cutting.
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- 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.
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- 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. (May 10, 2004)
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