Reproductive health

Yes. You would have torn reproductive organs.

Ritual Female Genital Operation (Female Circumcision)

Malignant tumours most commonly occurring among men are tumours of the lungs, stomach and prostate gland among women they are tumours of the urinary sexual organs, breast and cervix.

The sexual and reproductive rights of women and men, including women s ability to negotiate safer sex and make reproductive choices

(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

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

The Rural Health Project.

In the context of female genital mutilation, the Committee has recommended that assistance should be given to those who perform female genital mutilation to gain other sources of income.

45. Canada s Criminal Code prohibits female genital mutilation and also precludes removal of a child from Canada for the purposes of female genital mutilation.

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

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.

Men aged 20 to 60 genito urinary, sexually transmitted and prostate diseases.

Which chronic diseases, other than those pertaining to reproductive health, did women suffer from more than men?

The Family Planning Campaign also increasingly promoted male participation in family life and reproductive health education for the public especially for youth, both girls and boys.

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.

(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

It notes with concern that the practice of female genital mutilation has not been given attention.

The Committee continues to be especially disturbed at the persistent custom of female genital mutilation, which violates articles 6 and 7 of the Covenant, and the high rate of maternal mortality which results from that practice, from early childbirth and from the strict prohibition of abortion.

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

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

Thus, the rights of women to make choices concerning their reproductive and sexual lives are often violated by men.

The vaccination coverage rate for mothers and children, the primary beneficiaries.

It also noted that female genital mutilation and early child birth contributed to the high rate of maternal mortality.

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

The United Republic of Tanzania87 has introduced a law against female genital mutilation which stipulates that any person who commits the offence of female genital mutilation is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than 5 years and not exceeding 15 years and or to a fine.

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.

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

Urgent measures should be adopted to curtail the practices of female genital mutilation and forced marriage.

ii. Policy to combat genital mutilation

He was briefed on the Programme national de lutte contre l'excision, and informed of the paucity of reliable data on the prevalence and forms of FGM that exist in the region, and that it is difficult to reach more isolated communities.

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

Traditions and customary practices, including female genital mutilation, affected implementation of the Convention.

Men that have sex with men

Pears dried in the form of genital organs.

The Platform for Action suggests that the reasons men outnumber women in some areas of the world include harmful attitudes and practices, such as female genital mutilation, son preference, early and child marriage and discrimination against girls in the allocation of food (para. 259).

Parthenogenesis, as it was so called.

An international donor agency has provided support to the Government for development and implementation of essential reproductive health services focusing on gender mainstreaming in reproductive health including male involvement in reproductive health, quality of care, adolescent needs and vulnerability of certain groups to HIV.

The issues of gender and sexual and reproductive rights have been strenuously promoted in traditionally male dominated environments, such as the Army.

The Government had helped circumcisers to retrain for other activities.