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...

Call for M&E consultancy

Call for M&E consultancy The CoP FGM is recruiting a consultant to evaluate the project The Community of Practice (www.copfgm.org) on FGM was first launched in February 2017. After 4 years of implementing the Community of Practice, GAMS Belgium wishes to evaluate...

Webinar May 5th

Webinar May 5th In this webinar the speakers presented their projects and programmes aiming to involve men and boys in the work against FGM. We addressed the main opportunities and challenges of male involvement as a strategy to bring about the gender transformative...

Anti-FGM activists were at the NGO CSW 65 Forum

Anti-FGM activists were at the NGO CSW 65 Forum The CoP on FGM and its members participated in the NGOCWS65 Forum which took place in parallel with the 65th Commission on the Status of Women, between March 14th and March 26th 2021. This year, because of the sanitary...