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For girls escaping FGM in rural Tanzania, crowdsourced maps show the way to safety

Ending FGM takes a multi-pronged approach – from offering a refuge for girls at acute risk to engaging families and communities to raise awareness of the harm it causes, and transform the social norms that uphold the practice. Here, girls in Tanzania’s Mara region participate in an alternative rites of passage camp at the UNFPA-supported Masanga Centre. © UNFPA/Mandela Gregoire

22 October 2018

Resources

Manual on social norms & change - handouts

Resource date: 2016

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF

Publication

Manual on Social Norms and Change (2016)

Number of pages: 24

Publication date: 02 Jun 2016

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF

Statement

Joint Statement on International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

06 February 2015

#endFGM: How an organizer of cutting ceremonies became a change-maker

Published on: 07/02/2017

"I received a lot of information about this harmful practice. And I decided to stop organizing cutting ceremonies for girls. Our ancestors weren't aware of the dangers."

Read Aja's story here

Publication

Demographic Perspectives on Female Genital Mutilation

Number of pages: 54

Publication date: 20 Jul 2015

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

What we do

Published on: 06/04/2017

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The day I became a woman

Published on: 06/02/2017

For millions of women around the world, the transition to womanhood is not marked by independence, a job or graduation from school, but rather by female genital mutilation.

Statement

Empowering women and girls requires renewed efforts to end violence and harmful practices

21 November 2016

This is 2016 and yet one in three women worldwide still experiences or has experienced some form of physical or sexual violence, usually perpetrated by someone she knows. Moreover, millions of women and girls have been subjected to other forms of violence and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, which affect an estimated 200 million women and girls, or child marriage, with one in three girls in developing countries being married off before the age of 18.

Resources

Manual on social norms & change - presentations

Resource date: 2016

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF

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