genital mutilation

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• - A resource centre for FGM activists, written in English, French and Arabic.
  
• - An essay, by Lisa Donaldson, discussing this practice in the 21st century.
  
• - NPR's Margot Adler reports on the case of 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. Feminist groups and others - inclu
  
• - An article: The beginning of a suggestion that could very well stop genital mutilations, or at least cause a reduction.
  
• - Analyses, facts and regularly updated news on female genital mutilation in Africa.
  
• - Documentation of the medicalization of female genital mutilation in Kenya.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - International campaign to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation.
  
• - Amnesty International covers the topic of clitoridectomy, including procedures, why and where practiced, mental and physical effects on women.
  
• - NPR's Libby Lewis 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, which the United States has signed. The woman lives in Dallas, but is here illegally and
  
• - NPR's Margot Adler reports on the story of Adelaide Abankwah. Abankwah is 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 Ghana. Abankwah s
  
• - Attempts to present the practice from a variety of perspectives and serve as a networking resource for organizations doing work related to FGM.
  
• - 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 r
  
• - While contributing to the advancement of the field in general, we are currently focusing our work on the issue of Female Genital Mutilation to assert women's rights to their bodily integrity.
  
• - An international non-governmental organization based in Senegal Africa geared toward educating the people and ending female genital cutting.
  
• - A Nigerian woman is fighting deportation, saying she needs to stay because of her 10-year-old daughter, who is an American citizen. The mother has overstayed her visa by more than a decade. She says she can't leave her daughter in the US, but she says in
  
• - Articles by one of the leading authors and researchers on FGM.
  
• - 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]