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Somali survivors of female genital mutilation advocate to change minds – and lives

calendar_today26 February 2024

UNFPA and UNICEF’s Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation works with grassroots activists to encourage communities to abandon the practice. © UNFPA Somalia
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Raising the voices of survivors to create a generation free from female genital mutilation in Ethiopia

calendar_today08 February 2024

Zekia is advocating against female genital mutilation among her community and at school in the Dalocha district, in Ethiopia’s Central region. © UNFPA Ethiopia/MOPIX Production
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Breaking the cycle for survivors: UNFPA offers counselling and support to abandon female genital mutilation in Yemen

calendar_today05 February 2024

Safia seeks help at a UNFPA-supported youth-friendly service centre. ©UNFPA Yemen
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UNFPA, UNICEF

Publication date

Oct 2023

Number of pages

36

Annual Report

2022 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme: Reimagining Resilience

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Countering female genital mutilation in Sudan: “I didn’t know it was possible not to cut my daughter”

calendar_today23 March 2023

Members of a UNFPA-supported community network in Sudan speak to women in about the dangers of female genital mutilation. © UNFPA Sudan
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Rallying men and boys in the fight against female genital mutilation

calendar_today06 February 2023

Professor Akotionga performed the first operation in Burkina Faso to repair physical damage from female genital mutilation. Since then, he has trained more than 600 midwives, nurses and gynaecologists in the procedure. © UNFPA/Lambert Coleman
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Publisher

UNFPA, UNICEF

Publication date

Sep 2022

Number of pages

68

Annual Report

2021 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme: Delivering and Sustaining in the New Normal

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Publisher

UNFPA & UNICEF

Publication date

Sep 2021

Annual Report

2020 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme: Report on the Data and Evidence for Impact

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Five things you didn’t know about practices that harm girls

calendar_today30 June 2020

Without urgent action, the situation for women and girls could worsen. Artwork by Fatma Mahmoud Salama Raslan.
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When health workers harm: the medicalization of female genital mutilation in Egypt

calendar_today02 October 2019

Community leaders in Assiut Governorate speak about female genital mutilation. © UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme to Eliminate FGM
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