News

A vision of change: Pioneer spends 30 years advocating end to FGM in Sudan

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Abdullah Ali Abdullah has spent 30 years working with communities in North Kordofan to encourage abandonment of female genital mutilation. © UNFPA Sudan
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Cover image By the Numbers

Publication date

2017

Author

UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Publication Date: 2017

Number of pages

78

Annual Report

2016 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme: By the Numbers

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News

Escape at dawn: running away from child marriage and FGM in Kenya

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Faith (centre) with her friends Sylvia (right) and Vivian, who all ran away from home to avoid female genital mutilation and child marriage. © UNFPA Kenya/Douglas Waudo
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Publication date

2017

Author

UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

Number of pages

79

Publication

Seventeen Ways to End FGM/C

Lessons from the field

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News

Efforts to end FGM must be intensified, leaders urge

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Shaimaa Ahmed Ali teaches members of her community about the harms of female genital mutilation (FGM). © UNFPA Egypt/Sima Diab
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Statement

The world must make faster progress to end female genital mutilation by 2030

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News

Dropping the knife: One woman joins the fight for women’s rights in the Gambia

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Aja Babung Sidibeh used to gather girls for the FGM ritual. She comes from a family considered custodians of the tradition. © UNFPA/Kasandi Mulaa
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Publication date

Aug 2016

Author

UNFPA and UNICEF

Number of pages

60

Annual Report

2015 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme: Metrics of Progress, Moments of Change

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News

Young pioneer in Ethiopia defies FGM, finds love

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Hawa Buha with her husband, Enehaba Seid, in their home in Ethiopia. Ms. Hawa has been a trailblazer in her community, first refusing to undergo FGM, then marrying for love. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Abraham Gelaw
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