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Female Genital Mutilation: Many Pakistani women’s painful secret

2013/02/06

A good insight into the situation in Pakistan gives the Express Tribune’s Sub-Editor Farahnaz Zahidi Moazzam. In Pakistan, female circumcision is known to be practiced by a few communities along the Iran-Balochistan border, and a few isolated tribes, as well as the Dawoodi Bohra community. “I don’t want my daughter to have to go through […]

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Global Post: Egypt’s top court upholds female genital mutilation ban

2013/02/04

CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt’s top court reinforced a ban on female genital mutilation Sunday. The court rejected a lawsuit that challenged a 2007 health ministry decision to criminalize FGM, according to Al Ahram Online. The suit was first filed in 2008 by Islamist lawyers who claimed the FGM ban violated Article 2 of the 1971 […]

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Muscat Daily: The issue of female genital mutilation in Oman

2013/01/01

by Susan Mubarak A year and a half ago I wrote a column titled ‘Woman with an incense burner’ where I tried as delicately as possible to highlight the issues concerning female genital mutilation (FGM) in Oman, and Dhofar in particular where the practice is still very common. The feedback I received from readers and […]

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Determination to end FGM in Middle East

2012/06/11

The Hague / Suleymaniah June 11, 2012 The silence on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the Middle East needs to be broken. To end this brutal violation of human rights that is systematically applied in the region, NGOs Wadi and Hivos are expanding their pioneering work in Iraq to eleven countries.      FGM was regarded […]

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