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2 months, 3 weeks ago

GOP Rep Bungles Hurricane Helene Response With Email About 'Childhood Genital Mutilation'

LOADING ERROR LOADING Rep. Nancy Mace left people scratching their heads after her office accidentally mixed up a statement about Hurricane Helene with an abrasive press release about one of her anti-trans pet projects. Nancy Mace Statement on Hurricane Helene,” the Category 4 storm that flattened cities across the southeastern U.S., depriving communities of food and water and leaving hundreds …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Gambia may have upheld its ban on female cutting, but the fight goes on away from parliament

Associated Press

SOMA, Gambia — When Metta, a mother of six from rural Gambia, heard that lawmakers were considering reversing the country’s ban on female genital cutting, a centuries-old practice she underwent as a child and now fiercely opposes, she was determined that her voice be heard. “Once we got the news that the ban was kept in place, we danced and …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Female genital mutilation: Entrenched ritual with devastating effects

Hindustan Times

Lawmakers in the West African nation of The Gambia have rejected a highly controversial push to try overturn a ban on female genital mutilation. Apart from causing severe pain, female genital mutilation can cause potentially deadly health complications, from infections and bleeding to infertility and complications in childbirth. Vicious display of male power The term female genital mutilation covers all …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Gambia MPs uphold ban on female genital mutilation

The Hindu

Gambian lawmakers voted on July 15 to uphold a 2015 ban on female genital mutilation, rejecting a controversial bill seeking to overturn the law after months of heated debate and international pressure. Rights groups and the United Nations had urged MPs to reject the bill, saying it threatened years of progress and would have seen The Gambia become the first …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Gambia upholds its ban on female genital cutting. Reversing it would have been a global first

Associated Press

BANJUL, Gambia — Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia on Monday rejected a bill that would have overturned a ban on female genital cutting. Just because men didn’t believe that female genital cutting harmed us.” She added: “And right now, girls are still being cut. Gambia’s Islamic body in 2023 issued a fatwa, recommending the lifting of the …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Gambia’s parliament upholds ban on female genital mutilation

Al Jazeera

MPs vote to kill the Women’s Bill 2024, which had sought to decriminalise the practice of female circumcision. Gambian lawmakers have voted to uphold a 2015 ban on female genital mutilation, rejecting a controversial bill seeking to overturn the law, after months of heated debate and international pressure. The Women’s Bill 2024, which had sought to decriminalise the practice of …

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6 months, 1 week ago

UN warns ‘clandestine’ cross-border FGM undermines bans

Al Jazeera

Report highlights so-called ‘vacation cutting’ among families in the West taking girls to countries of origin for FGM. A report from the UN human rights office, published on Friday, found that FGM continues across the world despite bans, largely owing to the “clandestine” practice of taking girls abroad to countries where the practice is legal or where laws criminalising it …

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9 months ago

What is female genital mutilation that Gambia wants to decriminalise? Which countries allow it?

Firstpost

Female genital mutilation, a centuries-old ritual practised in some communities, includes the deliberate cutting or changing of a young girl or woman’s external genitalia. According to the World Health Organization, FGM refers to “all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.” Mostly young girls between …

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9 months ago

The Gambia votes to reverse landmark ban on female genital mutilation

Al Jazeera

Rights groups say proposed rollback of 2015 law will overturn women’s rights across the region as a whole. Politicians in the West African nation’s parliament voted 42 to four on Monday to advance the controversial bill, which would repeal a landmark 2015 ban on female genital mutilation that made the practice punishable by up to three years in prison Almameh …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

UNICEF: 230 million females are circumcised globally, 30 million more than in 2016

Associated Press

CAIRO — Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children’s agency. “We’re Some 144 million women and girls have been through female genital mutilation in Africa alone, followed by Asia and the Middle East with 80 million and 6 …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Africa vows to end female genital mutilation

China Daily

Maasai community villagers in Kenya take part in a dialogue workshop organized by the nonprofit Amref Health Africa that aims to eliminate female genital mutilation, in Suswa town, Narok County, on Jan 16. WU XIAOHUI/CHINA DAILY At a church compound in Suswa town in Narok County, Kenya, couples listened attentively, nodding and applauding as experts explained the consequences of the …

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10 months ago

Sexual silence: Experts discuss the reality of "Poor Things'" most horrifying scene

Salon

“Do you want just clitoral hood or glans as well?” “The whole infernal packet.” This gynecological checklist is the focal point of an exchange between Alfie Blessington, the estranged husband of Bella Baxter and a doctor in “Poor Things,” the latest film from director Yorgos Lanthimos. “The common thread no matter what century you're talking about, no matter what context,” …

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10 months ago

Woman becomes first to get jail-term for female genital mutilation of a three-year-old British girl

Firstpost

In a first of its kind judgement 40-year-old Amina Noor of UK was sentenced to seven years in prison at the Old Bailey over her involvement in female genital mutilation on a three-year-old British girl during a trip to Kenya. Described by the judge as “abhorrent” and “horrific,” the offence committed by Noor involved the removal of the child’s entire …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Woman jailed for seven years for handing over girl, 3, for female genital mutilation

The Independent

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation: All you want to know

Hindustan Times

International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation: Female genital mulitation is a brutal procedure carried out on women, especially when they are young. International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation: All you want to know As we gear up to observe International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation for this year, here are a …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Diddy's rap sheet of utter depravity: Car bomb claims, a champagne-bottle bludgeoning - and now the reported 'mutilation' of his girlfriend... MAUREEN CALLAHAN reveals Sean Combs' monstrous past and a

Daily Mail

Sean Combs just walks? If we're to believe the allegations lodged in civil court last week by his former protégée Cassie, hip-hop mogul Combs — also known as Puffy, Diddy and, laughably, Love — is one very dangerous man. In another vignette that recalls Knight at his most fearsome — taking rapper Vanilla Ice out on to his hotel balcony …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Woman guilty of handing over British child, 3, for female genital mutilation in Kenya

The Independent

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1 year, 2 months ago

Girl, 3, ‘cried all night’ after being subjected to female genital mutilation, court hears

The Independent

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1 year, 4 months ago

Costa Coffee defends mural of post-op trans man after boycott threat

The Independent

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1 year, 10 months ago

Dutch schools warned to be alert to female circumcision

NL Times

The Ministry of Education sent a letter to all schools in the Netherlands urging them to be extra alert to signs of female circumcision in the period around the spring school holidays. In the Netherlands, an estimated 41,000 women have been circumcised, and about 4,200 girls are at risk of genital mutilation in the coming years, according to knowledge institute …

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1 year, 10 months ago

International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation 2023: Theme, History and Significance

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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ZERO TOLERANCE TO FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION 2023: International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation is observed on February 6. International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation 2023: History The UN General Assembly designated February 6 as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation in 2012. International Day of Zero Tolerance …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Man pleads guilty to murder, mutilation of victim’s body

Associated Press

CORUNNA, Mich. — A Michigan man accused of killing another man and hanging the victim’s mutilated body from a ceiling pleaded guilty Thursday to murder, apparently against the advice of his lawyers. Mark Latunski appeared in Shiawassee County court, nearly three years after Kevin Bacon, 25, was killed in Bennington Township, 90 miles northwest of Detroit. “While this is not …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Real Housewives of Dubai star Chanel Ayan reveals she was forced to undergo female genital mutilation

The Independent

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2 years, 5 months ago

Transgender surgery is ‘mutilation’, Dr Robert Winston says

The Independent

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GOP Rep Bungles Hurricane Helene Response With Email About 'Childhood Genital Mutilation'

Gambia may have upheld its ban on female cutting, but the fight goes on away from parliament

Female genital mutilation: Entrenched ritual with devastating effects

Gambia MPs uphold ban on female genital mutilation

Gambia upholds its ban on female genital cutting. Reversing it would have been a global first

Gambia’s parliament upholds ban on female genital mutilation

UN warns ‘clandestine’ cross-border FGM undermines bans

What is female genital mutilation that Gambia wants to decriminalise? Which countries allow it?

The Gambia votes to reverse landmark ban on female genital mutilation

UNICEF: 230 million females are circumcised globally, 30 million more than in 2016

Africa vows to end female genital mutilation

Sexual silence: Experts discuss the reality of "Poor Things'" most horrifying scene

Woman becomes first to get jail-term for female genital mutilation of a three-year-old British girl

Woman jailed for seven years for handing over girl, 3, for female genital mutilation

International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation: All you want to know

Diddy's rap sheet of utter depravity: Car bomb claims, a champagne-bottle bludgeoning - and now the reported 'mutilation' of his girlfriend... MAUREEN CALLAHAN reveals Sean Combs' monstrous past and a

Woman guilty of handing over British child, 3, for female genital mutilation in Kenya

Girl, 3, ‘cried all night’ after being subjected to female genital mutilation, court hears

Costa Coffee defends mural of post-op trans man after boycott threat

Dutch schools warned to be alert to female circumcision

International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation 2023: Theme, History and Significance

Man pleads guilty to murder, mutilation of victim’s body

Real Housewives of Dubai star Chanel Ayan reveals she was forced to undergo female genital mutilation

Transgender surgery is ‘mutilation’, Dr Robert Winston says