News

International Conference to Boost Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

Photo: Sheila Mckinnon
  • 18 October 2013
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News

Scaling Up Strategies to Encourage Abandonment of FGM/C

The UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting aims to accelerate changes in entrenced social norms that put some 30 million girls at risk of undergoing this harmful practice. Photo © Sheila McKinnon
  • 23 July 2013
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In the News

UN Agencies Encourage Enforcement of FGM/C Ban After Girl’s Death

A counsellor in Egypt holds up cards used to educate women about female genital mutilation (FGM) in Minia in this photo from 2006. REUTERS
  • 11 June 2013
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News

Calling for an End to the Many Forms of Violence Against Women and Girls

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, centre, is flanked by executive leaders from UNDP, UNESCO, UN Women, UNFPA and the UNHCHR at a panel that called for joint action to end violence against women. Photo © Ilona Lalova/UNFPA
  • 06 March 2013
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In the News

Interview with Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA

  • 20 February 2013
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In the News

Interview with Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA

  • 19 February 2013
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News

Hanging Out with Experts on Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting

  • 12 February 2013
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In the News

FGM is About Culture not Religion: Executive Director Interview

  • 08 February 2013
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Media Advisory

GOOGLE+ Hangout to Discuss Progress, Challenges in Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

04 February 2013

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News

Ugandan Communities Scrutinize a Violent – Sometimes Deadly – Rite of Passage

These schoolchildren in the Moroto district, where FGM/C is still prevalent, were shown a video that explains the negative consequences of the practice. In the past, this information was hidden from them
  • 01 February 2013
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