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Scaling Up Strategies to Encourage Abandonment of FGM/C

The UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting aims to accelerate changes in entrenced social norms that put some 30 million girls at risk of undergoing this harmful practice. Photo © Sheila McKinnon

23 July 2013

In the News

UN Agencies Encourage Enforcement of FGM/C Ban After Girl’s Death

A counsellor in Egypt holds up cards used to educate women about female genital mutilation (FGM) in Minia in this photo from 2006. REUTERS

11 June 2013

News

Calling for an End to the Many Forms of Violence Against Women and Girls

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, centre, is flanked by executive leaders from UNDP, UNESCO, UN Women, UNFPA and the UNHCHR at a panel that called for joint action to end violence against women. Photo © Ilona Lalova/UNFPA

06 March 2013

In the News

Interview with Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA

20 February 2013

In the News

Interview with Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA

19 February 2013

News

Hanging Out with Experts on Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting

12 February 2013

In the News

FGM is About Culture not Religion: Executive Director Interview

08 February 2013

Media Advisory

GOOGLE+ Hangout to Discuss Progress, Challenges in Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

04 February 2013

News

Ugandan Communities Scrutinize a Violent – Sometimes Deadly – Rite of Passage

These schoolchildren in the Moroto district, where FGM/C is still prevalent, were shown a video that explains the negative consequences of the practice. In the past, this information was hidden from them

01 February 2013

News

General Assembly Committee Calls for Stronger Global Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

<p>Community discussions focusing on human rights are integral to collective decisions to abandon FGM in Senegal, one of the countries in the Joint Programme. <i>Photo: UNFPA</i> </p>

30 November 2012

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