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Female Circumcision
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Female Circumcision
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The big moment of truth and FGM 23 Nov 2005
The recent proclamation by the World Health Organisation (WHO), over the BBC that female circumcision is a weapon against HIV/Aids, as opposed to the outspoken ...
- Daily Observer,
Violence against women at crisis level in Britain, Government told 23 Nov 2005
It also criticised the Government for its alleged lack of action over the problems of forced marriage, female circumcision and the trafficking of women and ...
- Independent,
Free lesson on Islam 23 Nov 2005
The barbaric practice of female circumcision is NOT an Islamic practice but that of some East African tribes particularly in Somalia where she was born. ...
- Mmegi,
Photo: Sun News Publishing Nov 19, 2005
Why do you call it female circumcision? ... I wasn’t circumcised and I thank God for it. Come to think of it, female circumcision doesn’t stop promiscuity. ...
- Daily Sun,
Sex and the UniverCity Nov 16, 2005
...are very accustomed to circumcision in males, but when it comes to females, we, as a culture, are mostly appalled at the thought of female circumcision. ...
- Daily Campus (subscription),
Islam United to Stop Female Genital Mutilation Nov 22, 2005
Female genital mutilation (FGM), which is also called female circumcision, is most widespread in sub-Saharan Muslim cultures, but Muslim scholars for decades ...
- AllAfrica.com,
Female Genital Mutilation, Widely Condemned, Still Rampant in ... Nov 18, 2005
Female Genital Mutilation, the removal of the female genitalia, also known as female circumcision, has been condemned by the United Nations, human rights ...
- Voice of America
Female genital mutilation still rampant in Sudan Nov 19, 2005
Nov 19, 2005 (KHARTOUM) — Female Genital Mutilation, the removal of the female genitalia, also known as female circumcision, has been condemned by the United ...
- Sudan Tribune,
Soapy love story blurs message Nov 18, 2005
Soon you learn, though, that she's been there before. God's Sandbox is actually meant to make people aware of the extent of female circumcision. ...
- Miami Herald,
Fraudster cop did it all for love Nov 22, 2005
A LOVESICK cop sacrificed his career to save his illegal immigrant girlfriend from barbaric female circumcision. to crudely mutilate ...
- ic SouthLondon.co.uk,
Tegla Loroupe - bundle of energy and a driving force for peace Nov 22, 2005
...“We have many problems in our society, but all of these: female circumcision, fighting, the Aids virus, can be wiped out through education and sport, which ...
- International Association of Athletics Foundation,
CAN can’t be wrong Nov 22, 2005
...of twins, near-nude appearances (exposure of sensitive parts of the body), genital mutilation also known as female circumcision, immorality – inducing dance ...
- The Tide,
Sudan's Department of Gang Rape Nov 21, 2005
Rape leads to particular injuries in Darfur because many girls, as part of female circumcision rites, have their vaginas sewn shut with a wild thorn. ...
- New York Times,
Bad precedent Nov 20, 2005
...is right. Slavery was once a cultural practice in England. So is female circumcision in some countries in Africa. Would the author ...
- INQ7.net,
Tanc Newbury Nov 21, 2005
Cultural relativism would have us travel to a rural village in Mali, witness a female circumcision and, when a progressive local young girl says “Isn’t it ...
- Warwick Boar,
The snip could save many lives Oct 30, 2005
Male circumcision cannot be confused with female circumcision, and this is a real danger as well. Female circumcision is a mutilating ...
- The South African Star (subscription),
'Religious extremism' slammed Nov 8, 2005
Although the issue was not discussed at the session, Ms Dashti told reporters that she also condemned female circumcision, which is encouraged under some ...
- Gulf Daily News,
A Failed Former President Nov 18, 2005
He charges his opponents with, among other things, countenancing female circumcision, defending the murder of federal judges, torturing innocent Islamofascists ...
- ChronWatch,
Brevity as the soul of theatre Nov 17, 2005
Last year, the winning entry was a piece by a Nigerian woman about female circumcision which couldn't be staged in her country. ...
- Australian,
Edo Police arrest three over female circumcission Oct 30, 2005
...in the state and arrested three persons over their alleged involvement in illegal acts of threat to life and forceful female circumcision in violation of the ...
- Vanguard,
UN honours crusader for girls' rights Oct 24, 2005
Kenya's 2005 United Nations Person of the Year, Ms Agnes Pareiyo, yesterday received her award for crusading against female circumcision. ...
- Daily Nation (subscription),
Outcry over violated girls Nov 10, 2005
Genital mutilation, which is also referred to as female circumcision, is said to be one of the most widespread and systematic violations of the human rights of ...
- ic Birmingham.co.uk,
UN Honours Kenyan Woman for Fight Against 'Cut', Early Marriages Oct 24, 2005
..."She walked from village to village, sensitising the community on the dangers of female circumcision and advocating for an alternative rite of passage," says a ...
- AllAfrica.com,
Women's Rights Under Siege Nov 9, 2005
An important part of this has been trying to eliminate the practice of female circumcision which is still quite widespread in rural Egypt. ...
- Yale Politic (subscription),
Controversy and the DailyKos. Nov 13, 2005
...with a line about "respecting other cultures" and connecting that with the practice of female genital mutilation (euphemistically known as "female circumcision ...
- RedState.org,
Study links smacking and aggression Nov 14, 2005
..."In the global community, female circumcision is an example of a behaviour that has been condemned as being abusive and having long-term negative effects on ...
- Daily Mail - UK,
Focus on Integration in Germany After French Riots Nov 8, 2005
..."If our society has not been interested or kept quiet about female circumcision and forced marriages in parallel societies, about people -- almost always women ...
- Deutsche Welle,
I raped her, Sir, but my culture made me do it Nov 8, 2005
...their families, or the millions of women across western and southern Asia, the Middle East and large swaths of Africa who are mutilated by female circumcision.
- Australian,
Middle East Scholars Strike Out in Washington Nov 14, 2005
Saudi males. A film at the 1993 MESA conference equated Western treatment of women with Arab-African female circumcision. Even when ...
- Middle East Forum,
Problems of worried virgins Nov 7, 2005
...which are quite elastic. A surgical removal of vaginal membrane should not be confused with female circumcision. Vaginal membrane is ...
- The Tide,
'Terrible, Beautiful, Ordinary and Kiss-inducing' Nov 11, 2005
Of the 54 recognized African states, 38 still practice some form of female circumcision and Ousmane Sembène dedicated his film to "mothers, women who fight ...
- TheTyee.ca,
A study to amuse, irk -- or both Nov 7, 2005
...religious leaders.". Christian church males aren't let off any easier, and the subject of female circumcision makes him livid. He ...
- Charlotte Observer,
Celebrating African Writing in Style Nov 3, 2005
It is a haunting story about a girl in an interracial marriage caught up in female circumcision where her 'bud, the crown of her womanhood' is viciously ...
- AllAfrica.com,
Women Should Safeguard the Gains Already Won Oct 31, 2005
She said women in this part of the world are treated as their husband's property and are required to undergo female circumcision or else they are ostracised by ...
- AllAfrica.com,
Africa Week to focus on awareness, accomplishments of entire ... Oct 24, 2005
27 in the Oviatt Library. Daphne Nitri Quenum will lecture on “Changing Mindsets: Ending Female Circumcision through Literacy Education� on Oct. ...
- Daily Sundial,
The art of cultural development and policy Oct 27, 2005
...circumcisions. But who dares to dismantle the divide between the gender activists and traditionalists on female circumcision? Who ...
- Daily Observer,
Cinema Nouveau Oct 27, 2005
Films screened so far have included an African film dealing with the issue of female circumcision titled "Moolade`." In conjunction with the screening, The ...
- Seahawk (subscription),
Initiation ceremonies: necessity or outdated rite? Nov 7, 2005
If the modern girl is to benefit from it, changes must be made to it. Female circumcision should be excluded for obvious reasons. ...
- IPP Media - Guardian,
Give Hughes a chance 03 Oct 2005
...was when western women raised the issue of the horrific African practice of female genital mutilation, misleadingly called "female circumcision." Unlike male ...
- Santa Cruz Sentinel
Uganda told to ban child sacrifice,girl circumcision Sep 30, 2005
Female circumcision, in which part or all of the female genitalia is removed, is considered a rite of passage to adulthood in many African countries. ...
- Reuters AlertNet
Circumcision Can't Prevent HIV Oct 2, 2005
...(PRWEB) October 2, 2005 -- Two separate papers were presented at a conference in Brazil, claiming that male and female circumcision has the potential to reduce ...
- Emediawire (press release)
UNFPA and dangers of harmful practices against women Sep 30, 2005
Female circumcision formed the kernel of the interaction and deliberations at the one-day sensitisation workshop on reproductive rights and harmful traditional ...
- The Tide
Islam's silent revolution Sep 30, 2005
...my rights and I want these rights to be protected and I'm against any kind of, for example, forced marriages, domestic violence, female circumcision, and any ...
- Radio Netherlands
Minister Challenged on Campaign Against Women, Children’s Rights Sep 12, 2005
...on women/children’s rights as she was drilled for more than 30 minuites on the propriety or otherwise of the campaign against female circumcision and children ...
- This Day (subscription)
Global Perspectives: HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Sep 5, 2005
The issue of female circumcision was also investigated by Dr. R. Stallings, [18] who did HIV serologic tests on 5753 African women aged 15-49 years in Tanzania ...
- Medscape (subscription)
The invisible hijab Sep 28, 2005
It is women who perform female circumcision on six-year-olds, it is women who rationalise and justify their need to hide from the world. ...
- On Line opinion
Howl’s Moving Castle is a breath of fresh air Sep 26, 2005
This evil ritual, sometimes euphemistically titled “female circumcision� is combined with a lack of educational opportunities for girls. ...
- Student Direct
30,000 infected with Aids as virus spreads Sep 27, 2005
...in Kapenguria Town, the coordinator said the biggest challenge in the fight against Aids were cultural practices such as female circumcision, wife inheritance ...
- Kenya's Daily Nation (subscription)
- By MJAkbar Sep 25, 2005
...unconsciously. The chairman of one session kept criticising female circumcision until I pointed out that its origins were African-tribal. ...
- The Asian Age
The Anti-Terror, Pro-Israel Sheikh Sep 28, 2005
Besides the above, the Sheikh gives his opinion on the recently nominated Pope, female circumcision in the Muslim world, President Bush’s policies and the ...
- Israel Hasbara Committee (subscription)
Breakaway Somaliland intensifies Sep 19, 2005
...factors, namely; poor education, high mobility, the transfusion of unsafe blood and negative cultural practices, including female circumcision and commercial ...
- TODAYonline
Circumcision ban call Sep 15, 2005
...‘No forms of circumcision of women are required or customary for Muslims, and Danish law prohibits any form of female circumcision - regardless of whether it ...
- The Copenhagen Post
No reason for barbaric circumcision Sep 8, 2005
...inappropriate for American society. Will there next be a push for the female circumcision that is prevalent in Africa? The most outrageous ...
- Contra Costa Times
White Masai Sep 16, 2005
But Carola cannot overcome some cultural divisions. She is horrified that female circumcision is still practiced in the backwater village. ...
- Hollywood Reporter
Freeing Women from Exploitation and Despair Sep 7, 2005
...traditional practice that also threatens the health and violates the human rights of women is female genital mutilation or female circumcision, believed to ...
- Heritage.org
Two Steps Forward Sep 14, 2005
Mubarak has worked closely with NGOs and government bodies on awareness campaigns dealing with sensitive issues including female circumcision (now known as ...
- Egypt Today
Use Sharia to uplift women, Nigerian scholars say Sep 13, 2005
...north. The booklet did not raise the issue of female circumcision, widely practiced in many African countries including Nigeria. ...
- Reuters AlertNet
Muslim jurists say sharia laws can help women Sep 14, 2005
...needy. The booklet does not raise the issue of female circumcision, widely practised in many African countries, including Nigeria. ...
- Independent Online
Around the Valley Sep 14, 2005
CSI professor Paula Edmonds Hollifield said the ancient custom is sometimes given the more politically correct term, "female circumcision." The custom has ...
- Twin Falls Times-News
Southern Sudanese ask: where's the peace dividend? Sep 15, 2005
...by militiamen at the age of six, forcibly married to an Arab in her teens, beaten by other women for refusing to undergo female circumcision, and insulted for ...
- Reuters AlertNet
Nothing really wrong with proposed law Sep 13, 2005
...their dignity or quality of life. Female circumcision immediately comes to mind here. Article 41 (5) places equal responsibility ...
- Kenya's Daily Nation (subscription)
Dear old Germaine Greer is attacking me for my role as Beattie in ... Sep 15, 2005
Germaine believes an extension at Stansted is a good thing and that female circumcision, if done in a humane way, is cultural and not to be discouraged. ...
- Guardian Unlimited
Harmful Traditional Practices On Women, Children Identified Aug 31, 2005
The paper presented by the General Manager of Medhin Tiwlid, Mesfin Afework, stated that female circumcision, removal of uvula, abduction, early marriage ...
- AllAfrica.com
A new word to describe Internet smut: 'webcest.' Aug 31, 2005
Rowland likens the word to "infanticide" or "female circumcision," explaining that "it [stinks] that this thing exists, but there it is, and it needs a word.". ...
- The Free Lance-Star
Column disservice to women's movement30 Jul 2005
Proving it is another problem. Feminists also lead the fight against the barbaric practice in primitive cultures of female circumcision. ...
- News Courier
More sex than sense in 'Sandbox'30 Jul 2005
...eroticism. And then, with an astonishing degree of nutty nerviness, the movie switches gears into a diatribe against female circumcision. ...
- Los Angeles Daily News
Female circumcision could cause infertility-studyJul 28, 2005
LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - Female circumcision, which is practised in more than 30 countries and affects 2 million girls each year, could cause infertility. ...
- Reuters AlertNet
Commitment from Gambian government to prevent female circumcisionJul 15, 2005
The move comes after a proposal was drawn up for an alternative ritual procedure that enables female circumcision to be avoided. ...
- Medical News Today
Circumcised men less likely to get HIV, says studyJul 29, 2005
Also at the IAS conference, Rebecca Stallings, of the US Macro International Research Corporation Company, presented a study of female circumcision. ...
- SciDev.net
Female Circumcision still going onJul 13, 2005
There is nothing good about FGM, either traditionally or medically,� he says. Traditionally, the origins of female circumcision are not clear. ...
- GhanaWeb
Activists Call on the United Nations to Classify Male Circumcision ...Jul 27, 2005
I find it quite ironic that the United Nations condemns female circumcision as a human rights crime while it simultaneously encourages male circumcision as a ...
- Emediawire
Discussing the Issue of Multiculturalism from the Perspective of ...Jul 29, 2005
...(1) Sure enough, she encountered serious pressure in these countries such as female circumcision and arranged marriage (to be forced to marry a man without her ...
- Journal of Turkish Weekly
Paul Thomas: West's tolerance and freedom under threatJul 29, 2005
This, apparently, is what qualifies as moderate in the current climate: al-Qaradawi favours female circumcision but doesn't think it should be obligatory ...
- New Zealand Herald
WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORT OF BURKINA ...Jul 15, 2005
...women. For example, even though female circumcision had been banned and its practice criminalized, it was still being performed. ...
- I-Newswire.com
Tread more carefullyJul 27, 2005
He favours female circumcision, but does not regard it as obligatory and suggests cutting off only the prepuce of the clitoris, not the whole thing. ...
- Miftah
Police Denied Power to End Assault CasesJul 28, 2005
Female circumcision, forceful wife inheritance and marrying of boys or girls of below 18 years, are also categorised as sexual offences punishable by not less ...
- AllAfrica.com
The Triumph of Reason?Jul 27, 2005
...cultures brought to the great smorgasbord of life (my expression, not hers): such as, presumably, singing and dancing and basket-weaving and female circumcision ...
- City Journal
LATEST REVIEWSJul 27, 2005
...references would be fairly unusual. Still, not every romantic drama contains two scenes of female circumcision. A middle-aged Israeli ...
- LA City Beat
DJIBOUTI: Women fight mutilationJul 12, 2005
Ministry of Health, recalls the outcry of more than 200 women in a conference hall on 2 February, when Muslim Imams conceded that female circumcision was not ...
- Reuters AlertNet
Dijibouti's women fight mutilationJul 12, 2005
...ministry of health, recalls the outcry of more than 200 women in a conference hall on February 2, when Muslim imams conceded that female circumcision is not ...
- Mail & Guardian Online
SUMMARY OF TODAY’S MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION ...Jul 15, 2005
...assigns an inferior role to women. No legislation existed banning female circumcision. Apart from customary law, religious Islamic ...
- I-Newswire.com
In Somalia, isolation has kept AIDS at bayJul 25, 2005
As well, cultural factors increase the risk as there's a strong taboo against condom use and a widely practised tradition of female circumcision, which makes ...
- Globe and Mail
UN panel discusses law and practice in ending discrimination ...Jul 18, 2005
...and the Government was engaging in a dialogue with religious and other civil society leaders to influence attitudes towards such issues as female circumcision. ...
- UN News Centre
NEWARK BLACK FILM FESTIVAL HAS MOVIES FOR ADULTS, CHILDRENJul 24, 2005
Next up is "Moolaade" (2004), a tough-minded film from Africa about female circumcision (the term moolaade means protection from the surgery), with a guest ...
- Asbury Park Press
New Children's Bill Outlaws Virginity TestingJul 4, 2005
Bill are the lowering of the age of majority from 21 to 18, setting up a national register of child sex offenders, banning female circumcision and virginity ...
- AllAfrica.com
It's all about practice, dialogueJul 26, 2005
Benedictine Sr. Mary John Mananzan, who works in the Philippines, listed incest, rape, female circumcision and infanticide among abuses to be corrected. ...
- National Catholic Reporter
Toronto's Globe and Mail Profiles HIV/AIDS Awareness Group in ...Jul 26, 2005
...warn that a 1% prevalence rate indicates an "impending explosion," especially in a country where migration, conflict, female circumcision, and a lack of condom ...
- Kaiser network.org
Civil Liberties, Anti-Terrorism and Homeland SecurityJul 17, 2005
For Example: Female Circumcision (haven't stopped Male Circumcision yet) and the slaughtering of Chickens, goats, or other animals associated with religious ...
- Magic City Morning Star
Damaging PracticeJul 8, 2005
For the sake of argument, why shouldn't female circumcision be acceptable to some cultures (Arab and African) on moral grounds?n.
- Addis Tribune
Why Government Lost Propaganda WarJul 19, 2005
To effectively galvanise world opinion on female circumcision, those opposed to it changed the language to Female Genital Mutilation. ...
- AllAfrica.com
Of cruelty, custom and changeJul 21, 2005
...cinema, and on the surface, his film is a polemic against the atrocious practice of female genital mutilation, also called female circumcision, and it's ...
- Arizona Republic
US apologizes to Muslim scholar for denying entryJul 19, 2005
He writes and lectures on a wide variety of issues including human rights, female circumcision, the rights of unborn children and the place of Islam in Britain ...
- Washington Post
BRITAIN: UK MUSLIM LEADER BARRED FROM ENTERING USJul 15, 2005
He writes and conducts lectures on a range of issues including human rights, female circumcision, the rights of unborn children and the place of Islam in ...
- AKI
US Refuses To Admit Leading British Muslim ClericJul 15, 2005
He writes and lecture on subjects such as human rights, female circumcision, the rights of unborn children and the place of Islam in Britain.
- Elites TV
UN report on women discrimination in GambiaJul 21, 2005
Taal said government was engaging religious and other civil society leaders in dialogue to "influence attitudes towards on issues such as female circumcision.".
- AngolaPress
Written and directed by Ousmane SembeneJul 6, 2005
Female circumcision is still practised in some 38 African countries, and with this film Sembene pays an endearing tribute to the heroes who stand against it. ...
- Sydney Morning Herald (subscription)
In Today's FeuilletonsJul 19, 2005
But it becomes a concerted lie when she makes 'Islam itself' responsible for the failure of integration, and even for evils like female circumcision, in her ...
- Signandsight.com
Straight From The Middle EastJul 11, 2005
...faith versus love and a time honored tradition from third world countries that women around the world have been suffering from for years – female circumcision ...
- Emediawire
Questions and AnswersJul 1, 2005
I don’t think I’d do genital mods along the lines of female circumcision or labia removal, since I will have paid a massive amount of money to get them in ...
- BME
Human Rights Violations Related to Women’s Sexual Autonomy and ...Jul 8, 2005
...and community members pressure women to undergo mutilating, physically inhibiting, and often painful bodily alterations such as female circumcision or female ...
- Human Rights Watch
Tipping the balanceJul 2, 2005
...to market with no shoes, the women forced to carry water and babies for miles, and by the invitation from a Kenyan Masai tribe to attend a female circumcision. ...
- Times Online
Former Post Columnist Judy Mann Dies at 61Jul 8, 2005
She decried a plan by the Egyptian minister of health to require female circumcision be performed in hospitals, and she proposed a ban on US aid to Egyptian ...
- Washington Post
King has a plan for testing men's virginityJul 4, 2005
...the National Council of Provinces has approved a Bill passed by the National Assembly which, among other things, seeks to ban female circumcision and virginity ...
- Independent Online
Zulu monarch Zwelithini urges virginity testing for malesJul 4, 2005
...the national council of provinces has approved a bill passed by the national assembly which, among other things, seeks to ban female circumcision and virginity ...
- Cape Times (subscription)
Women to Boost Poverty WarJul 12, 2005
..."The barriers include early and forced marriages, female circumcision, early child bearing, widow inheritance and gender violence.". ...
- AllAfrica.com
Ndaitwah Urges Equality for DevelopmentJul 14, 2005
..."They lack the power to say no and also gamble with harmful practices such as female circumcision that place the lives of women and girls in danger. ...
- AllAfrica.com
Male Virginity Testing Urged in Aids BattleJul 5, 2005
...of Provinces recently approved a Bill that proposes banning virginity testing, as well as harmful cultural practices such as male and female circumcision. ...
- AllAfrica.com
GOD'S SANDBOXJul 8, 2005
Their relationship is torn apart when Leila is exposed to a female circumcision ceremony. Know of additional infomation we could be listing? ...
- Movie Web
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