Published on: 07/02/2017
"I received a lot of information about this harmful practice. And I decided to stop organizing cutting ceremonies for girls. Our ancestors weren't aware of the dangers."
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Publication
Number of pages: 54
Publication date: 20 Jul 2015
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
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Published on: 06/04/2017
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Published on: 06/02/2017
For millions of women around the world, the transition to womanhood is not marked by independence, a job or graduation from school, but rather by female genital mutilation.
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Statement
21 November 2016
This is 2016 and yet one in three women worldwide still experiences or has experienced some form of physical or sexual violence, usually perpetrated by someone she knows. Moreover, millions of women and girls have been subjected to other forms of violence and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, which affect an estimated 200 million women and girls, or child marriage, with one in three girls in developing countries being married off before the age of 18.
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Resources
Resource date: 2016
Author: UNFPA, UNICEF
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Resources
Resource date: 2016
Author: UNFPA, UNICEF
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Publication
Number of pages: 88
Publication date: 01 Nov 2014
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
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News
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Publication
Number of pages: 110
Publication date: 06 Sep 2018
Author: UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation
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