Assessment 07
Human Rights Standards on Harmful Practices
Excellent progress
Your SRHR programming and policies have strong foundations and commendable practices. Continue to monitor and refine for sustained success!
Good progress
Your SRHR programming and policies are on the right track! Keep building on these positive elements, and address noted areas for further improvement.
Partial progress
Your SRHR programming and policies show potential. Focus on strengthening the weaker areas you’ve identified to enhance overall effectiveness.
Needs improvement
Your SRHR programming and policies need attention. Implement the recommended changes to address gaps and strengthen impact.
Needs significant improvement
Your SRHR programming and policies have critical weaknesses. Prioritize the recommended strategies for a substantial overhaul that will improve effectiveness.
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SenegalEliminating FGM through Youth Advocacy and Male Engagement.
In Senegal, 23% of women between the ages of 15 and 49 report having undergone FGM.
Youth organizations and networks have made decisive contributions to the campaign to eliminate FGM, through combined strategies that include the development of tools to support community organizations in advocating against FGM, advocacy messaging to promote social norms change around the practice, and a mobilization campaign through the hashtag #TouchePasAMaSœur (don’t touch my sister).
The Movement 99-05 youth advocacy initiative calls on judicial authorities to implement Law 99-05 prohibiting FGM, and to end the practice. The campaign targets young people by engaging popular Senegalese musicians to perform music with social commentary on FGM, laying bare its harmful consequences. It has reached a wide audience via social media platforms, inspiring boys and girls and men and women alike to get involved.
The UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation encouraged young people’s participation in the movement by training them in advocacy techniques and communication tools. The young people drafted a memorandum for state authorities with recommendations for eliminating FGM.
The Joint Programme supports families and communities in shifting attitudes so that FGM is no longer a “women’s issue.” It engages men and boys as allies who can catalyze change by helping to expand choices for girls and women and by amplifying their voices. The community-wide approach that engaged men and boys in Senegal has had a transformative impact on gender relations, social and gender norms, and systems that sustain gender inequalities.
To ensure that FGM is understood as a human rights issue, the Joint Programme also works with Senegal’s judiciary, police, and policymakers to ensure that the anti-FGM law is implemented.
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01. Human Rights Standards on Maternal Health
Ensuring health, well-being and dignity during pregnancy and childbirth.
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02. Human Rights Standards on Contraceptive Information and Services
Ensuring access to safe, voluntary family planning.
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03. Human Rights Standards on Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Enabling young people to protect and advocate for their health, well-being and dignity.
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04. Human Rights Standards on Comprehensive Abortion Care
Ensuring access to legal, safe, confidential and respectful abortion services.
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05. Human Rights Standards on HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections
Preventing transmission and promoting the health and rights of people living with HIV and other STIs.
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06. Human Rights Standards on Gender-Based Violence
Protecting the health, dignity, security and autonomy of women, girls and other vulnerable populations.
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07. Human Rights Standards on Harmful Practices
Working to end harmful practices rooted in gender discrimination.
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