Against All Odds

Published on: 21/03/2019

Ifrah Ahmed speaks out about FGM

Published on: 20/03/2019

At a UNFPA-supported photo exhibition on the harms of female genital mutilation, advocate Ifrah Ahmed spoke about her own experience and her efforts to end the practice.

Statement

Take action to eliminate female genital mutilation by 2030

06 February 2019

News

Top 5 things you didn’t know about female genital mutilation

Asha lays out the tools she uses to perform female genital mutilation in Somalia. © UNFPA/Georgina Goodwin

05 February 2019

Media Advisory

UNFPA Exhibition to Highlight Continued Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation

31 January 2019

Technical Specialist, FGM, WCARO, Dakar, P-3

Level: P-3
Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
Closing date: 21 Dec 2018 05:00 PM (America/New_York)
Duty station: Dakar

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News

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

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