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Against All Odds

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Against All Odds

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Ifrah Ahmed speaks out about FGM

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https://youtu.be/-lcVMP1OgUY

Ifrah Ahmed speaks out about FGM

At a UNFPA-supported photo exhibition on the harms of female genital mutilation, advocate Ifrah Ahmed spoke about her own experience and her efforts to end the practice.

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The path forward will not be easy, says Tadelech Ermias, who bravely refused to undergo FGM. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Abraham Gelaw

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Christos Stylianides, the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, and Alexander De Croo, the Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Finance and Development Cooperation, visited Hammam Al-Aleel camp for internally displaced persons in Mosul. © UNFPA Iraq

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More than 50 UNFPA mobile teams are currently working in the country, serving thousands. © UNFPA/Maks Levin

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Asha lays out the tools she uses to perform female genital mutilation in Somalia. © UNFPA/Georgina Goodwin

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Reaching women in Mosul, where the shadow of conflict still lingers

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Eman, from West Mosul, needed a Caesarean section for her fifth child. © UNFPA Iraq/Jared Kohler

Born complete

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UNFPA, UNICEF

Publication date

2018

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UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation Publication Date: 2018

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How to Transform a Social Norm

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For girls escaping FGM in rural Tanzania, crowdsourced maps show the way to safety

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Ending FGM takes a multi-pronged approach – from offering a refuge for girls at acute risk to engaging families and communities to raise awareness of the harm it causes, and transform the social norms that uphold the practice. Here, girls in Tanzania’s Mara region participate in an alternative rites of passage camp at the UNFPA-supported Masanga Centre. © UNFPA/Mandela Gregoire

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