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Courageous girls change attitudes about FGM in Ethiopia

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Uncut girls club members come together to change attitudes about FGM in the community. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Meron Negash

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“I refused”: Brave women and girls take a stand against FGM

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Latty, 14, was inspired by her mother to call for the elimination of FGM. Luca Zordan for UNFPA

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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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2017

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

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Annual Report

2016 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme: By the Numbers

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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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For many girls, school holidays means FGM “cutting season”

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Asha Ali Ibrahim, a local circumciser, with her granddaughter, who is due to be cut this year. © UNFPA/Georgina Goodwin

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2017

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UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

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Seventeen Ways to End FGM/C

Lessons from the field

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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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Former Ugandan circumciser says she will never go back to performing FGM

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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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Courageous girls change attitudes about FGM in Ethiopia

“I refused”: Brave women and girls take a stand against FGM

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

2016 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme: By the Numbers

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

For many girls, school holidays means FGM “cutting season”

Seventeen Ways to End FGM/C

Lessons from the field

Efforts to end FGM must be intensified, leaders urge

Former Ugandan circumciser says she will never go back to performing FGM

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

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