Statement

A race against trends

calendar_today06 February 2018

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News

A story of violence: 16 objects show the reality of gender-based violence around the world

calendar_today22 November 2017

Tatiana’s family in Ukraine was torn apart by her husband’s abuses. He is gone now, but she and her six children are still trying to rebuild in this small home. “The children – I live for them,” Tatiana said. © UNFPA Ukraine/Maks Levin
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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

Men take a stand against gender-based violence in Azerbaijan

calendar_today27 October 2017

An initiative is bringing men together to address gender-based violence and the inequalities that fuel it. © UNFPA Azerbaijan
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News

UN and EU launch global effort to end violence against women

calendar_today22 September 2017

Svitlana Tavantseva (right) counsels survivors of violence in Ukraine. Too often, she says, women are shamed rather than perpetrators. © UNFPA Ukraine/Maks Levin
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News

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

calendar_today06 September 2017

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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News

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

calendar_today10 August 2017

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

calendar_today17 March 2017

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

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

calendar_today23 February 2017

Turutea Chelangat, a former circumciser in eastern Uganda, has renounced FGM. © UNFPA Uganda/Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi
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