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FGM: Slow progress when talking to the UN about numbers
5.2.2016, by Stop FGM Middle East UNICEF just came out with new numbers on FGM. Instead of 140 million, the United Nations Children’s fund now estimates the number of women and girls having undergone female genital mutilation worldwide to be at least 200 million. Those extra 60 million come from adding Indonesia to the list […]
United Nations Population Fund: Speaking out against female genital mutilation in Indonesia
4.2.2016 Source: United Nations Population Fund – Press Release/Statement JAKARTA, Indonesia – “The day before I was discharged by the midwife, my daughter was circumcised. She is now three weeks old. When she becomes an adult, she will pray five times a day and read the Al Quran,” says Rosa, a young woman living in […]
Cutting the clitoris: Indonesia continues practice to prevent women from having sex
5.10.2015. by Kate Walton. One reason piercing the clitoris is popular in Indonesia is because it is believed to reduce women’s sexual desire and libido A friend of mine recently messaged me in shock: “I just read a UNICEF brief that says millions of women in Indonesia have undergone female circumcision. I had no idea.”
Jakarta Globe: Despite Ban, Female Genital Mutilation widespread in Indonesia
18.9.2015. By Bastian Scheerpen. More than 140 million women worldwide have experienced female genital mutilation, but not everybody knows that many of them live in Indonesia, where over half of girls under 11 are subjected to the dangerous practice that is widely condemned internationally. Now, with research indicating that government regulations and religious decrees have little to no impact […]
Emirates Women: FGM In The Middle East | Investigating Cutting Customs
28.4.2015. By Lindsey Stevens Emirates Woman investigates the culturally sensitive issue of female genital mutilation, and asks what is being done to put an end to this practice in the Middle East. The preparations have been made. In a makeshift clinic in an old school hall, tables dressed with sheets and pillows serve as hospital […]
Global Post: The custom of female circumcision remains good business in Indonesia
15.4.2015. by Marie Dhumieres JAKARTA, Indonesia — Komariah says she’ll show us how female circumcision is done. She grabs a tangerine on the kitchen table, peels it and takes out a segment. She picks up a huge knife from a shelf. Then she bursts out laughing. “I’m just kidding,” she says, before taking a much […]
Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM: We need more campaigns in Asia
By Stop FGM Middle East February 5th, 2015. On the fifth official International Day of Zero Tolerance to female genital mutilation (FGM), the campaign against FGM in Iraq is taking up speed and with its comprehensive approach already yielding great successes. Newest data shows: FGM can be eradicated in one generation. According to a KAP-Study […]
FGM in Indonesia still of great concern
29.1.2015. By Stop FGM Middle East. Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has demanded that Indonesia submits its overdue report on Human Rights. According to the UNHR Committee the development in Indonesia is not positive except concerning female genital mutilation (FGM). In contradiction to this statement Stop FGM Middle East points out that […]
Yearly Report 2013-14
11.1.2015 by Stop FGM Middle East Stop FGM Middle East was founded as a website and a small research project in early 2013 with the aim of making the existence of FGM in the Middle East and Asia outside of Africa public. In August 2013 we started working with a small team to bring together […]
Revisiting Reza Aslan’s response to Bill Maher about female genital mutilation
21.10.2014. After Reza Aslan called FGM an African Problem, Stop FGM Middle East contacted PunditFact to set things straight. Here is their clarification: “Hannah Wettig, who manages the Stop FGM Middle East campaign for Germany-based nonprofit WADI and Hivos, pushes back on the notion of FGM as an “African problem” and criticized UNICEF’s reliance on […]