The point of view of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Female Genital Mutilation
By Rayehe Mozafarian, 07.06.2014 On his website, the Supreme Leader of the IRI, Ayatollah Khamenei presented a sentence on circumcision for both gender, female and male. According to this sentence (Fatwa), female circumcision is not obligatory.
Egypt launches first prosecution for female genital mutilation after girl dies
Dr Raslan Fadl and father of the 13-year-old girl who died during cutting are the first to be prosecuted in Egypt for practice of FGM The Guardian, 14.03.2014 A doctor will stand trial for the first time in Egypt on charges of female genital mutilation, after a 13-year-old girl died following an alleged operation in […]
Unicef questions need to perform FGM in Muslim nations
04.03.2014, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics A Unicef official has questioned why female genital mutilation (FGM) needs to be carried out in Muslim countries. According to Haydar Nasser, FGM is not a requirement under the Islamic faith and is actually a practice that dates back to the pharaohs. He also noted that the Koran […]
Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation; Action in Asia is needed
By HIVOS and WADI; The Hague, Suleimania, 5 February, 2014. On the fourth official International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female genital mutilation (FGM), the practice is far from being eradicated. While the numbers of mutilated girls are decreasing in Africa after decades of concerted efforts, large regions where FGM is practiced are entirely […]
The Organization for Islamic Cooperation calls to end FGM
An OIC Statement dating March 11, 2013: The FGM is unfortunately only one of many cultural practices that are disguised as part of religious tradition. Child marriage, violence against women as well as other negative acts perpetuated are often misidentified as being part of Islamic tradition, whereas they are part of the local tradition and […]
Significant Decrease of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Iraqi-Kurdistan, New Survey Data Shows
20.10.2013 By Wadi Significant Decrease of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Iraqi-Kurdistan, New Survey Data Shows In several Iraqi Kurdish regions female genital mutilation (FGM) has declined significantly within a decade. During the last six months, the Iraqi-German NGO Wadi has collected data on the prevalence of female genital mutilation in the areas of Suleimaniyah, […]
Exploration of pathways related to the decline in female circumcision in Egypt
19.10.2013 A research about the decline of FGM in Egypt By Sepideh Modrek and Jenny X Liu, published in BMC Public Health Background There has been a large decline in female genital circumcision (FGC) in Egypt in recent decades. Understanding how this change has occurred so rapidly has been an area of particular interest to […]
Resisting FGM in Malaysia: One fathers story
The Milla Project When my daughter was born, I remember there being a huge rush of nurses, doctors, students and various other medical attendants swirling around the doors of the delivery room. On a whiteboard next to the entrance was a hastily drawn-up list of all the various expecting mothers who were delivering at the […]
UNICEF research on FGM reason for concern
26.07.2013 This week, UNICEF issued a report on female genital mutilation (FGM). It stresses the importance of continuous data gathering to inform policymakers and programmes, as a vital part of all efforts to eliminate FGM. German NGO Wadi and Hivos welcome the amount of exposure this report has received and fully endorse the need, amongst […]
FGM Debate Continues in Muslim Lands
Gatestone Institute 18.07.2013, by Irfan Al-Alawi While overshadowed apparently by the general civil conflict over the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) regime in Egypt, the spreading problem of female genital mutilation (FGM) has recently shaken the land of the Nile. Yet the mass upsurge against the tyrannical fundamentalism of the MB is related, however obscurely, to the […]