Legal framework on FGM (2019)

LAW & FGM Legal framework on FGM (2019)   International legal instruments on FGM   Female Genital Mutilation is internationally recognized as a practice that violates human rights. A number of international conventions and declarations form the legal...

Press review May 2021

Press review May 2021 Every month, the Community of Practice publishes not one but TWO press reviews with the latest news and tools on Female Genital Mutilation – one with English material and one with French. You can read the press reviews for May 2021 by clicking...
Men and our duty to speak up against FGM

Men and our duty to speak up against FGM

Men and our duty to speak up against FGM by Modou Lamin Davies Growing up in my community, I learnt to catcall women. Sometimes, adult men would send me to tell off women who ignored their advances or refused to obey their instructions. I remember thinking how strange...

FGM: the taboo of exile

Intergenerational aspects FGM: the taboo of exile   The situation of migrant women who have fled their country to protect their daughters from excision is special because they find themselves in a new culture, where excision is condemned. They want to protect...