Reproductive health

Ritual Female Genital Operation (Female Circumcision)

Yes. You would have torn reproductive organs.

The Rural Health Project.

The practice of FGM C remains widespread in parts of Africa.

General Recommendation 14 dealing with female genital mutilation

The law against genital mutilation was now being enforced.

Mr. Ates (Turkey) said that the new Penal Code referred not to virginity testing, but to genital examinations, which was not gender specific.

(c) The work carried out by the Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation of the United Nations Population Fund and her continuing contribution to the campaign to eliminate female genital mutilation

Enactment and effective enforcement of laws that prohibit female genital mutilation and marriage of girl children.

I learned that that ceremony that I went through when I was 13 years old, it was called female genital mutilation.

Female genital mutilation is a subject that is regularly raised in discussions with countries where it takes place.

For example, female genital mutilation amounted to criminal assault on a child.

International meeting on women's right to health and on female genital mutilation organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held in Sweden

The Government was training women in the field to alert other women to the existence of legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation.

International Conference on Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, Addis Ababa

The extent of female genital mutilation among groups of African origin in the Netherlands is as yet unknown.

The Netherlands continues to be active internationally in the fight against female genital mutilation.

There is no definite information on the existence of female genital mutilation in Pakistan.

When it comes to reproductive health, Law L 2000 010 AN of 10 July 2000 prohibits and severely punishes the practice of female genital mutilation. Yet despite these legal provisions, women and girls are still the victims of traditional practices harmful to their self fulfillment. These include

Aim to eradicate harmful traditional practices against women and girls such as female infanticide and female genital mutilation (in the case of FGM provide alternative rites of passage which embrace positive cultural coming of age ceremonies without the mutilation of the girl child)

Work is being carried out to address sexual and gender based violence against girls and women, as well as for the abandonment of the practice of female genital mutilation cutting (FGM C).

The Government had helped circumcisers to retrain for other activities.

Although that Code was the principal instrument for combating discrimination against women in Benin, there were other laws that reinforced it the Act on Punishment of Female Genital Mutilation the Act on Reproductive Health and the Act on Sexual Violence against Women.

Agnes was a woman who was cut when she was a little girl, she was female genitally mutilated.

Was the Government making an effort to prevent female genital mutilation through awareness raising?

The Government planned to promulgate legislation banning female genital mutilation, abduction and other harmful traditional practices.

That document also banned all physical and psychological violence, mutilation, early or forced marriage and sexual harassment.

(c) To collect and disseminate basic data about the occurrence of traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls, including female genital mutilation

(a) Clarification of the criteria for acute toxicity, reproductive toxicity and target organ systemic toxicity

Recent data indicates over the last few years there were no reports of women who underwent female genital mutilation in Israel.

They may be victims of selective abortion, genital mutilation, neglect and infanticide, including through inadequate feeding in infancy.

As a consequence, it will act as a support centre for organisations involved in preventing female genital mutilation (the focal point').

In 2001 it submitted, for the fourth time, a resolution on combating female genital mutilation.

Female genital mutilation was included among the harmful traditional practices prohibited by the Act but it was not specifically named.

The Committee expresses similar concerns regarding the effectiveness of the law on female genital mutilation.

Reaffirming that harmful traditional or customary practices, including female genital mutilation, constitute a serious threat to the health of women and girls, and may have fatal consequences,

The Reproductive Health Project.

Speakers underlined the success in girls' enrolment, and in the fight against child labour and trafficking and female genital mutilation.

(k) To promote men's understanding of their roles and responsibilities with regard to promoting the elimination of harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation

The next report should clearly address the issue of female genital mutilation, if it existed in Gabon.

Government response to Strategies to prevent FGM (Parliamentary Papers, House of Representatives 29200 XV, no. 231).

The Committee recommends that the State party include detailed information in its next periodic report on the practice of female genital mutilation.

In response to the study, the Government presented its views on female genital mutilation to Parliament.

Delegates expressed the importance of having a strategy to address gender based violence, including female genital mutilation.