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Tostan: Futa, It Is Time To Talk

Futa, It Is Time To Talk (Fuuta, Le Temps Est Venu D’en Parler) Harouna, a young Fulani from northern Senegal, is upset by the death of a close friend who died from the health consequences of undergoing female genital cutting

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Why Circumcise Me?

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Abandoning FGM in Kolfe Keranio: The Journey

Abandoning FGM in Kolfe Keranio: The Journey : a story of former circuciser and those who are a victim of FGM

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Mutilación Genital Femenina II. Claves para el diálogo

Documental elaborado por la Asociación Lasexologia.com, con el apoyo del Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social y del Fondo Europeo para la Integración. Muchas familias practican la Mutilación Genital Femenina a las niñas pensando que es una práctica positiva y

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Mutilación Genital Femenina I. Claves para la comprensión y la intervención

Documental elaborado por la Asociación Lasexologia.com, con el apoyo del Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social y del Fondo Europeo para la Integración, que profundiza en la práctica de la Mutilación Genital Femenina en España, y ofrece claves para conocer

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Fighting female genital mutilation among India’s Bohra

Mumbai, India – About 40 years ago at the age of seven, Masooma Ranalvi was lured to a dark alley in a decrepit-looking building by her grandma’s promise of ice-cream. It is a day that she will never forget. [+info]

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Petition Against Female Genital Mutilation Provokes An Angry Backlash

For many minorities, what happens in the community stays in the community. But last winter, 17 Indian women from a tiny sect of Islam blew the lid off a guarded secret, spurring scrutiny, controversy, debate and vituperative abuse. Since then,

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Na Guiné-Bissau, 30% das meninas até aos 14 anos sofrem a excisão

Fatumata Djau Baldé, Presidente do Comité Nacional para o Abandono de Práticas Tradicionais Nefastas à Saúde da Mulher e da Criança, denuncia mutilação genital feminina [+info]

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Kenya – L’excision une lutte au Quotidien

27, 1% des femmes kenyanes sont excisées mais il existe de fortes disparités entre les ethnies : chez les massaï et les kisii par exemple, 96% des femmes sont mutilées. Le pays dispose d’une loi, adoptée en 2001 et révisée

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360º – Geo Kenya, le village des femmes

Dans le village d’Umoja, qui jouxte le parc national de Samburu, au Kenya, il n’y a que des femmes. Fuyant les mutilations sexuelles, les mariages forcés et la violence conjugale, elles ont trouvé refuge dans ce havre de paix fondé

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