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How a religious ruling seems to have stopped FGM in the 1950s in Ahwaz, Iran

2016/08/09

9.8.2016 By Stop FGM Middle East. Two new studies shed more light on the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the Middle East. For the first time, a study explores whether FGM is practiced in Syria – and comes to the conclusion that no evidence of its existence can be found. Another study explores […]

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FGM in Iraq: The hoax of a hoax?

2014/07/29 / 1 Comment on FGM in Iraq: The hoax of a hoax?

29.7.1014. By Stop FGM Middle East Last week a statement by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was circulating in Arab Social media calling female genital mutilation sunnah (the right path in Islam) and called on all Muslim women to have it done. A number of Western media outlets and international organizations reported […]

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Don’t leave girls under FGM threat by ISIS alone!

2014/07/24

24.7.2014. By Stop FGM Middle East The self-proclaimed Khalif Abubakr Baghdadi has ordered the genital mutilation of all women and girls in the area occupied by his Al Qaida-inspired organization “Islamic State in Iraq and Sham” (ISIS). The statement by ISIS says that “to protect the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, and in […]

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Syria: Islamic State ‘decrees’ infibulation for all women

2014/07/24

23.7.2014. (ANSAmed) – BEIRUT – An unverified decree dated Monday in the Islamic State (IS), which extends from Aleppo in Syria to Mosul in Iraq, states that all women in the territory must undergo infibulation, or female genital mutilation. The decree was allegedly made by the territory’s self-proclaimed “Caliph” Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. The decree […]

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