UN Agencies Encourage Enforcement of FGM/C Ban After Girl’s Death
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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
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<p>LONDON — U.N. agencies have called for the prosecution of an Egyptian doctor after a 13-year-old girl died while undergoing female genital mutilation/cutting at a private clinic.</p>
General Assembly Committee Calls for Stronger Global Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
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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>
Using the Opportunity of the General Assembly to Speak Out Against FGM/C
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Using the Opportunity of the General Assembly to Speak Out Against FGM/C
<p>The organizers of the panel, Madame Chantal Boni Yay, First Lady of Benin, and Madame Chantal Campaore, the First Lady of Burkina Faso, are pictured here with UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin.</p>