October 6, 2009Children face forced marriages in NorwayIn Norway, the Red Cross has set up a hotline for women facing forced marriage or FGM: according […]
September 19, 2009Scandinavia fights female genital mutilationSweden, Denmark and Norway try to stop genital mutilation among immigrants at home and abroad. via:[http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/europe/090916/scandinavia-female-genital-mutilation?page=0,0]
September 12, 2009Dutch Court clears father of FGMA Court in Haarlem, the Netherlands, has acquitted a man of Moroccan origins of charges that he performed […]
June 24, 2009Aid agency calls for FGM legislation in IrelandAn aid agency is calling for specific legislation on Female Genital Mutilation to protect women and girls in […]
June 1, 2009Oklahoma Governor Henry signs budget billOklahoma governor Brad Henry has signed House Bill 1834, which makes it a felony to engage in female […]
May 30, 2009FGM among Somali women living in the NetherlandsFour out of ten Somali and Ethiopian women who give birth in the Netherlands have been genitally mutilated. […]
May 27, 2009Clinic in Spain offers hope for victims of FGMA clinic in Barcelona, Spain, is offering reconstructive surgery of the clitoris to women who have been circumcised. […]
May 17, 2009Women’s Rights Activist Named Afghanistan’s Person Of The YearRadio Free Afghanistan has named Anarkali Honaryar, a 25-year-old dentist and women’s rights activist, as its Person of […]
May 10, 2009Burkina Faso clinic to fight taboo of female mutilationAfrica’s first clinic designated for the reconstruction of female genitalia will open in Bobo-Dialousso this year. The clinic […]
April 14, 2009France warns against forced marriages, mutilationFrance launched a new campaign to warn potential victims of forced marriages and female genital mutilation on Tuesday, […]
April 14, 2009Australian Court bars father from taking daughter for female circumcisionThe Family Court has for the first time intervened to prevent a father from taking his nine-year-old daughter […]
March 26, 2009Catalan police in crusade against female genital mutilationThanks to the efforts of Cataluna’s regional police force, Mossos d’Esquadra, during 2008, 104 girls living in the […]
March 1, 2009New York City, State Do Little to Address Female Genital CuttingWhen Angela Montague spoke to her colleagues throughout the city about genital cutting, she discovered that many of […]
May 4, 2004Female Circumcision Threatens Girls in GermanyFemale circumsion isn’t just a problem in African countries: in Germany, as many as 6,000 girls of African […]