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Meeting a Circumciser: “Men suffer from it” – In Salalah facing up against FGM is almost impossible

2013/12/06 / 3 Comments on Meeting a Circumciser: “Men suffer from it” – In Salalah facing up against FGM is almost impossible

By Stop FGM Mideast Salalah 4.12.2013. The women at the Women’s Association call her Doctor Marzouka. With her sun glasses and gold rings on her fingers the 50 something year old lady has a modern air around her. Playing with her car keys she shows that she is an emancipated woman – women driving is […]

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Oman: Precise descriptions of FGM already in the 1960s

2013/12/03 / 1 Comment on Oman: Precise descriptions of FGM already in the 1960s

By Stop FGM Middle East Salalah, 3.12.2013. In recent years there have merely been rumors that female genital mutilation is practiced in Oman. Some bloggers wrote about it. In UN publications, the country was mentioned occasionally in reference to FGM, but no one seemed to know more. Most people seemed to believe that it exists […]

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Field Trip to Oman: FGM is acknowledged but everyone is afraid to tackle it

2013/11/30 / 1 Comment on Field Trip to Oman: FGM is acknowledged but everyone is afraid to tackle it

by Stop FGM Middle East 30.11.2013, Muscat. The activist Habiba Al Hinai has asked women in shopping malls and clinics about female genital mutilation. 78 percent reported to be circumcised – more than even the most FGM-critical Omani bloggers estimated (“Linoleum Surfer” assumed 20 percent victims). What is even more surprising about Al-Hinai’s ad-hoc-study: The […]

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