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“The work to combat female genital mutilation begins with trust”
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Female genital mutilation driven by local customs in southern Iran – study
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New Report finds Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting in 94 countries
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Medicalized Female Genital Mutilation: Faulty Policies, Unwilling Doctors, and Frightened Girls
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“I lost my baby in front of my eyes”, FGM adds to the tragedies facing Yemeni women
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Countering Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Iraq
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Promising developments in Sudan & the United Arab Emirates
Moves to medicalize female mutilation could destroy ‘Stop FGM’ advocacy
WNN SOAPBOX 17.4.2013 By Faiza Jama Mohamed (WNN) Nairobi, KENYA: Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a severe form of discrimination against girls. It is an extremely violent act of control and an utterly invasive and destructive assault of the female sexual organs. It promotes the idea that there is something fundamentally wrong with girls, which […]
Hivos and partner WADI launch website against FGM in the Middle East
17.4.2013. Hivos and our partner WADI proudly announce the launch of the ‘Stop FGM Middle East’ campaign’s website to break the silence about female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Middle East and to contribute to its full elimination. Girls and women all over the Middle East face the practice of FGM, which constitutes a gross […]
Times of India: NID student’s film on female genital mutilation
30.3.2013. What is it like to have undergone female genital mutilation, asks NID student’s film When a 24-year-old student of film and video communication at the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad received a special mention at the 60th National Film Awards, it was for showing nerve. Although devoid of sting operations and hidden […]
Indonesia denies mutilation in circumcision traditions
Thrashing wildly, five-year-old Reta wails as she is hoisted onto a bed during a circumcision ceremony in a school-hall-turned-clinic on Indonesia’s island of Java. “No, no, no,” she cries, punching and kicking as her mother cups her tear-soaked face to soothe her. Doctors clap and cheer encouragingly. One of them gently swipes her genital area […]
Islamic Pluralism: The Global Campaign Against Female Genital Mutilation Continues
23.3.2013 by Irfan Al-Alawi A global campaign to eradicate female genital mutilation [FGM], often misnamed “female circumcision,” continues. While foreign NGOs have made Iraqi Kurdistan a center of the effort to do away with this practice, many observers have argued that it is not a “Kurdish” problem. FGM is also not just a “Muslim” phenomenon. […]
“A Tiny Cut”: Female Circumcision in South East Asia
The Islamic Monthly, 12.3.2013 I am a Muslim of Malay ethnicity, who was born in Singapore, where Malays are an ethnic and religious minority today, and lived there until I was 24 years old. The Malays, of whom 99 percent are Muslim, are the indigenous people of Singapore and the Malay archipelago. Until the arrival […]
Statement on Behalf of the OIC Secretariat 57th Session of the Commission of the Status of Women
11.3.2013 The Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Countries stresses the necessity to eliminate FGM in this statement.
Trust Law: Activists press Indonesia to ban genital mutilation
12.2.2013. By Emma Batha ROME (TrustLaw) – Indonesian campaigners fighting to end female genital mutilation (FGM) have told their government it must ban the practice in the light of the new U.N. General Assembly resolution on eradicating FGM. It is believed to be the first case where campaigners have used the U.N. resolution to exert pressure […]
Huffington Post: De-linking Female Genital Mutilation From Religion
by Ufuk Gokcen (Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, United Nations) Female genital mutilation has long survived, hidden under the cloak of religious, cultural, and tribal practices, but this week, as we commemorate the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), it is time for every leader whether political or […]
Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation – Too little action taken against FGM
6.2.2013. Press Release – The Hague and Suleimania, Currently one hundred and forty million girls and women are estimated to have undergone a female genital mutilation (FGM) procedure. On the 6th of February, which was introduced by the United Nations as The International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, Hivos and Wadi – […]
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Last Press Statements »
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Putting the spotlight back on FGM in the Middle East – Wadi at the Women Deliver Conference 2026
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FGM in Iraq: More research needed after succesful campaign in Kurdistan led to ban of harmful practice
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Conference on 6th of Feb: Long-term approach to eradicate FGM in Iraqi Kurdistan yields results
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Feb 6: Wadi speaks on DW about what made success in Kurdistan possible
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6th of Feb: WADI announces FGM has dropped to zero in highly effected region in Iraqi Kurdistan
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Oman bans unexpectedly Female Genital Mutilation
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Study finds: FGM is practiced by Saudi women