The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) aims to raise awareness about the brutal practice of FGM. Clarion Project’s film Honor Diaries breaks the silence about all sorts of honor violence against women including FGM, honor…
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Women talking about their personal experiences of female genital mutilation (FGM)
Journalist and broadcaster Susan Bookbinder talks with four women about how they would like to see professionals hold sensitive conversations about female genital mutilation, including what actions to take to safeguard vulnerable girls.
Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt
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True Story – Female Genital Mutilation in Afar, Ethiopia
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and UNICEF are working towards the elimination of female genital mutilation/cutting in the Afar region of Ethiopia. True Story is a film made for the UNFPA/UNICEF Joint Programme by SafeHands for Mothers: www.safehands.org
FGM – a ritual of Agony
A documentary about female genital mutilation (FGM). Made with support from The Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs.
The Cutting Tradition
The Cutting Tradition is a 47-minute film, narrated by Meryl Streep, commissioned by FIGO – the International Federation of Obstetricians & Gynecologists. Filmed in Ethiopia, Egypt, Djibouti, Burkina Faso and the UK, it looks at the reasons for female genital…
I will never be cut’: Kenyan girls fight back against genital mutilation
Nancy is a Kenyan girl about to face a brutal passage to womanhood. Narrated by Angela Griffin. This video is one of a series of investigative documentaries about poverty, commissioned and editorially controlled by Guardian Films, produced in association with…
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Reversing Female Circumcision: The Cut that Heals
On the International Day for Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, VICE News reports on a little-known surgery that restores sexual function to the clitoris for women who had their genitals mutilated as children. We meet and follow a 32-year-old…
